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lamboys

lamboys noun: bases (skirts made of armour).

Noun

lamboys pl (normally plural, singular lamboy)

  1. (historical, plural, plural-normally) Bases (skirts made of armour)
    • On the wall back of these cases is the skirt (lamboys) of a suit of armor said to have belonged to Henry VIII of England. Near by on the right are swords of the […]1922, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Guide to the Collections, page 30

Proper noun capitalized: Lamboys

Lamboys

  1. (plural) plural of Lamboy

Forms of lamboys

singularlamboy

Origin of lamboys

Unclear. Perhaps from French lambeaux (“shreds, tatters; the fringe on a military cloak”), or perhaps a misreading of jamboys, jambeaus (“leg armor”).

Questions about lamboys

What does lamboys mean?
Lamboys means bases (skirts made of armour).
What part of speech is lamboys?
Lamboys can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near lamboys in the dictionary

  1. Lambourn
  2. Lambourne
  3. Lambournes
  4. lamboy
  5. Lamboyan
  6. lamboys
  7. Lambrecht
  8. Lambrechts
  9. lambrekin
  10. lambrekins
  11. lambren

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