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

  • 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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