cete

Example Sentences

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Or rather, a rampaging cete of ravenous badgers.

From The Guardian • Apr. 23, 2013

Or, to take a rare opportunity to use the word, a cete of ravenous rampaging badgers.

From The Guardian • Apr. 10, 2013

Some were very curious, such as a skulk of foxes, a cete of badgers, a huske or down of hares, a nest of rabbits, and a clowder of cats, and a kindle of young cats.

From Our Cats and All About Them Their Varieties, Habits, and Management; and for Show, the Standard of Excellence and Beauty; Described and Pictured by Weir, Harrison

The knychtis al out of the cete roß 988 Of melyholt, and to the ſemble gois.

From Lancelot of the Laik A Scottish Metrical Romance by Skeat, Walter W. (Walter William)

The feild is don and ham goith euery knycht, 1140 And prevaly, unwiſt of any wicht, The way the red knycht to the cete taiis, As he had hecht, and in his chambre gais.

From Lancelot of the Laik A Scottish Metrical Romance by Skeat, Walter W. (Walter William)