Noun: squame
Genitive
Dative
Sample Sentences
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yron squames [1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Tale of the Chanons Yeman”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:]
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not squames to wasche them, and wype them, nor auoyde them, not angry nor hasty, or un pacient thof one haue the vomet, another the fluxe, another the frensy, which nowe syngethe, now wel apayde, ffor ther be some sekenesses vexynge the seke so gretly and prouokynge them to ire, that the mater drawen up to the brayne alyenthe the mendes. [c. 1450, “Additions to the Rule or Saint Saviour”, in George James Aungier, editor, History and Antiquities of Syon Monastery, published 1840, page 395:]
Nouns inflected like squame
schimeringe,
synger,
serche,
sengle,
snoute,
saucer,
sauter,
sapour,
saphir,
sachel,
sculle,
scrape,
scrowe,
scisme,
sclate,
schyfe,
schyve,
schole,
schere,
schave, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old French esquame, from Latin squāma. See: Latin Nouns '
squāma'.
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