nomen

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Nomen Wine: This Oregon wine, produced by a family of sisters, comes in PET bottles that weigh about three times less than glass bottles.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 12, 2021

King said police are interviewing the missing woman’s classmates at the Nomen Global Language Center.

From Washington Times • Apr. 24, 2015

The Nomen Global Language Center, a Utah language school that teaches English to non-native speakers, has reportedly fired a blogger for teaching students about homophones.

From Salon • Jul. 31, 2014

The Nomen was indicative of the branch of the family distinguished by the Cognomen; while the Prenomen was invented to distinguish one from the rest.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 by Disraeli, Isaac

I daresay you will think these Nomen a strange race, but I am going to tell you something stranger still concerning them, and that is that none of them could talk, no—not one!

From The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 357, October 30, 1886 by Various