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  • noun Plural form of veney.

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Examples

  • I bruised my shin th’ other day with playing at sword and dagger with a master of fence; three veneys for a dish of stewed prunes; —and, by my troth, I cannot abide the smell of hot meat since.

    Act I. Scene I. The Merry Wives of Windsor 1914

  • I bruised my shin th 'other day with playing at sword and dagger with a master of fence; three veneys for a dish of stewed prunes; and, by my troth, I cannot abide the smell of hot meat since.

    The Merry Wives of Windsor 1597

  • I bruised my shin th 'other day with playing at sword and dagger with a master of fence; three veneys for a dish of stewed prunes -- and, by my troth, I cannot abide the smell of hot meat since.

    The Merry Wives of Windsor William Shakespeare 1590

  • I bruised my shin th’ other day with playing at sword and dagger with a master of fence; three veneys for a dish of stewed prunes; and, by my troth, I cannot abide the smell of hot meat since.

    The Merry Wives of Windsor 2004

  • * rkh a mafter of fence, three veneys for a dim q£ fd prunes; and, by my troth, I cannot abide the, of hot meat fince.

    Works 1795

  • I bruised my shin th’ other day with playing at sword and dagger with a master of fence; three veneys for a dish of stewed prunes; and, by my troth, I cannot abide the smell of hot 260 meat since.

    The Merry Wives of Windsor The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] William Shakespeare 1590

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