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[UK] Holinshed Chronicles (Ireland) II 26/2: The estate of that flourishing towne was turned arsie versie, topside the other waie.
at arsey-varsey, phr.
[UK] Holinshed (?) Chronicles 107: Of women kinde. Of vvomen kinde. 1. Demaunders for glimmar or fire. / 2. Bawdie baskets. 3. Mortes. 4. Autem Mortes.
at autem mort (n.) under autem, adj.
[UK] Holinshed Chronicles (Ireland) II 29/2: The Irish doubtlesse repose a great affiance in this balducktum dreame.
at balductum, adj.
[UK] Holinshed Chronicles (Ireland) II 40/2: Thomas being the ringleader of the one sect, and Scotus the belweadder of the other.
at bell-wether, n.
[UK] Holinshed Chronicles VI (1807) 82: The mountaine parts and out Iles euen vnto this daie are inhabited with a wild kind of people called Redshanks, esteemed by some to be mingled Scots and Picts.
at redshank, n.
[UK] Holinshed Chronicles III 1170/1: It pleased God to send England a calme and quiet season, a cleare and louely sunshine [...] a quitsest from former broiles of a turbulent estate.
at quitsest, n.
[UK] Chronicles (N.Y.) XI 6/3: These times when novelists may be divided into prisspants like Truman Capote and foulmouths like Norman Mailer.
at prissy-pants, n.
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