nebule – English noun declension

English noun forms of nebule

Noun: nebule
Singularnebule
Pluralnebules

Sample Sentences

  • The most common mouldings are the billet, the nail-head, the chevron, the zig-zag or embattled frette, hatchet, nebule, star, rope, beak-head, dog-tooth, and, occasionally, different sorts of foliage, as the vine[…] [1836, Henry Gally Knight, An Architectural Tour in Normandy: With Some Remarks on Norman Architecture, page 199:]
  • The nave and aisles and west transept have a nebule corbel-tabling under the eaves. The aisle windows are large octofoiled circles. A huge square tower rises over the middle bay of the west transept. On each side are two large Middle-Pointed windows of three lights,[…] [1848, Benjamin Webb, Sketches of Continental Ecclesiolgy, Or, Church Notes in Belgium, Germany and Italy, page 45:]
  • They consisted of cauls or close caps, in the last instance made of net-work, in which the hair was confined round the face, and sometimes allowed to fall on the shoulders also; the ornamented fronts of the nebule and zigzag headdresses which are seen on brasses are probably intended to represent frills. [1861, Herbert Haines, A Manual of Monumental Brasses:]
  • They have plain square bases; and the round capitals, of no great projection, have mouldings different in the different pillars, in their way as interesting a piece of detail as an in the minster. The first on the south side, reconing from the west, and the last on the north have the cable, and the others the lozenge, nebule, and hatchet. But most remarkable is the fifth on the south side with a series of four—the beaded cable, lotus leaf, triple nebule, and lozenge. [1898, Arthur Dimock, The Cathedral Church of Southwell, page 61:]
  • The period of the nebule head-dress trends somewhat upon the reign of the succeeding monarch, inasmuch as it lasted from 1350 to 1380. [2012, Mrs. Charles H. Ashdown, British Costume from Earliest Times to 1820:]
  • For exaample, leachables from glues used to apply labels to the outer wraps of nebule formulations were being found inside the nebule formulation. [2012, Douglas J. Ball, Daniel L. Norwood, Cheryl L. M. Stults, Leachables and Extractables Handbook, page 82:]
  • Place contents of nebule in bottom of nebule bowl, fix to face mask and apply oxygen or air to mask at 6–8 L/min flow rate. [2013, Angus C. Cameron, Richard P. Widmer, Handbook of Pediatric Dentistry:]
  • High dose: 1.25 mg per nebule every 6 to 8 hours if symptoms are acute or unresponsive to low dose. [2023, William E. Berger, Tonya A. Winders, Asthma For Dummies, page 252:]

Etymology

From Latin nebula (“little cloud, mist”), though the first sense ("a decorative wavy pattern", as a noun) is perhaps a misunderstanding of the adjective nebulé (“wavy”). See: Latin Nouns 'nebula'.