Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A trifle; a thing or a matter of no value.
- noun A part of women's dress, probably a veil, worn in the latter part of the fifteenth century.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A trifle.
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- noun obsolete A
trifle ; something small and insignificant.
Etymologies
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Old French
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Examples
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UnA noHe atque unu die] Subjicc fugiens; nam fine illoaut fimi* li verbo, haec cum (equentibus non cohxrebunt, ubi dicitur perve - nifle Nicomediam nodie alid, id eft altera feu proximl.
Lucii Caecilii Firmiani Lactantii De mortibus persecutorum, cum notis Stephani Baluzii ... Lactantius, Paul Bauldri, Etienne Baluze , Nicolas Thoynard , Johan Columbus , Thomas Spark , Joannes Georgius Graevius, Gisbertus Cuperus, Elias Boherellus, Thomas Gale 1692
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