eame
English
Noun
eame (plural eames)
- Obsolete form of eam. (an uncle).
- 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, Book IV, xlix:
- Three times the shape of my dear mother came, / Pale, sad, dismay'd, to warn me in my dream: // Alas! how far transformed from the same, / Whose eyes shone erst like Titan's glorious beam.— // Daughter, she says, fly, fly, behold thy dame, / Foreshows the treasons of thy wretched eame.
- 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, Book IV, xlix:
References
- “eame”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Middle English
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