Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete variant of
paunch . - noun In armor: Same as
cuirass . - noun Body-armor of linked mail; also, the brigandine, in the sense of any coat of fence for the lower part of the body. Also
paunch . - noun Same as pance, pansy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) The pansy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Obsolete form of
pansy . - noun obsolete A piece of
armour which covers theabdomen or lower body.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Carnation; "sops in wine," jolly-pastoral for double pink; "paunce," thoughtless pastoral for pansy; "chevisaunce," I don't know (not in
On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature John Ruskin 1859
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The doe was hit thru the liver and paunce yet still went only 56 yds.
Do you like mechanical or fixed blade broadheads better? 2009
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The doe was hit thru the liver and paunce yet still went only 56 yds.
Do you like mechanical or fixed blade broadheads better? 2009
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And the Cowslyppe with a prety paunce let heere lye.
Poems and Fragments 2006
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And the Cowslyppe with a prety paunce let heere lye.
The Poems and Fragments of Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus
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'sops in wine,' jolly-pastoral for double pink; 'paunce,' thoughtless pastoral for pansy; 'chevisaunce' I don't know, (not in Gerarde);
The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing John Ruskin 1859
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