Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Novelty; new things.
- noun A quarrel.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Novelty; new things.
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- noun obsolete Novelty; new things.
Etymologies
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Old French novelerie.
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Examples
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Now relevance (to make a short paragraph of the kind Hugo himself loved) is a mighty goddess in novelry.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889
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These are all excellent seasonings of novelry; but they are not the root of the matter, the _pièce de résistance_ of the feast.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889
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