nombril

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  1. noun Heraldry The point on an escutcheon between the fess point and the base point; the midpoint in the lower half of the escutcheon.

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  • What charming things Ronsard has to say of either might be said of any charming woman--'le mignard embonpoint de ce sein Petit nombril, que mon penser adore Non pas mon oeil, qui n'eut oncques ce bien And though he assures Hélčne that she has turned him from his grave early style, 'qui pour chanter si bas n'est point ordonné,' the difference is too hard to detect; one is forced to conclude that it is precisely the difference between a court lady and an inn-keeper's daughter. —  Aspects of Literature
  • Des le nombril tot contreval —  Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature
  • La marque de la Belcuenotte, qui a esté brulée à Besançon, estoit au dessus de sa nature, vn peu plus bas que le nombril. —  The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology
  • Les envieus et envieuses sont en ung fleuve congelé plongés jusques au nombril et par dessus les frappe un vent moult froid et quant veulent icelluy vent éviter se plongent dedans ladite glace. ' —  Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine
  • MURREY in the fess, with a dog, couchant, for common charge, and under his foot a chain embattled, for slavery, with a chevron VERT in a chief engrailed, and three invected lines on a field AZURE, with the nombril points rampant on a dancette indented; crest, a runaway nigger, SABLE, with his bundle over his shoulder on a bar sinister; and a couple of gules for supporters, which is you and me; motto, MAGGIORE FRETTA, MINORE —  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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  1. French, from Old French, from (u)n ombril, (a) navel, from Vulgar Latin *umbilīculus, from Latin, diminutive of umbilīcus; see nobh- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from French nombril, from Latin umbilicus, navel: see numbles and umbilicus.
 

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