vocable
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It will be a welcome relief if camouflage, as popular five years ago as fin-de-si�cle twenty-five years ago, shall follow that now unfashionable vocable into what an American president once described as 'innocuous desuetude'.
From Society for Pure English, Tract 05 The Englishing of French Words; the Dialectal Words in Blunden's Poems by Society for Pure English
Then the wrath of the old Inspector became vocable.
From The Red Acorn by McElroy, John
We find ourselves before a Greek vocable reproduced in Tifinar.
From Atlantida by Benôit, Pierre
The initial i in the particle -ile often affects the last or penultimate syllable of the verbal root, thereby causing one of the very rare changes which take place in this vocable.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" by Various
The primitive vocable now conveyed a lively resentment, but there was the pleading of a patient sufferer in what followed.
From Somewhere in Red Gap by Wilson, Harry Leon
