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larum-bells

larum-bells is the plural of larum-bell.

Meaning of larum-bell

Noun

larum-bell (plural larum-bells)

  1. (obsolete) An alarm-bell.
    • His larumbell might lowd and wide be hard, / When cause requird, but neuer out of time; / Early and late it rong, at euening and at prime.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Questions about larum-bells

What is larum-bells the plural of?
Larum-bells is the plural of larum-bell.

Words near larum-bells in the dictionary

  1. LaRue County
  2. Laruellian
  3. Larues
  4. larum
  5. larum-bell
  6. larum-bells
  7. larumed
  8. laruming
  9. larums
  10. Larunda
  11. Laruns

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