Noun: sold
Sample Sentences
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But were your will her sold to entertaine [1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:]
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Lying in campe under sold and pay, fighting as souldiers. [1601, William Barlow, A Defense of the Articles of the Protestant Religion in answer to a libell lately cast abroad:]
Nouns inflected like sold
greyware,
chronotropy,
urgrund,
cytosorting,
homekeeping,
pedobaiting,
winterdress,
JLNS,
rumpology,
hopkinsiaxanthin,
enchylemma,
further education,
hexobendine,
humdrumminess,
unobligingness,
backscroll,
telocinobufagin,
dosulepin,
mensuralism,
crème de framboise, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English solde, sould, soud, from Middle French solde, Italian soldo. Compare soldier and Danish sold (via Low German). Doublet of sol, soldo, solid, solidus, sou, and xu. See: Middle English Nouns '
solde', Italian Nouns '
soldo'.