iambeux
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Middle English[edit]
Noun[edit]
iambeux pl (plural only)
- jambeaus
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Ryme of Syr Thopas”, 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:
- Hise iambeux were of quyrboily, His swerdes shethe of yuory.
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