Definitions
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- proper noun A patronymic
surname .
Etymologies
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From a medieval diminutive form of the given name Robert + the patronymic suffix -s.
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Examples
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Two other Britons in Spain have just launched an appeal against their conviction for killing an ex-pat playboy criminal, Colin Nobes, whose body was dumped, wrapped in a tarpaulin, under a flyover in the province of Alicante in 2006.
New Europe: British criminals no longer comfortable on 'Costa del Crime' 2011
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Marston DJ, Dickinson S, Nobes CD (2003) Rac-dependent trans-endocytosis of ephrinBs regulates Eph-ephrin contact repulsion.
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Frankenstein, ed. Patrick Nobes (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989).
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