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lioncelles

lioncelles is the plural of lioncelle.

Meaning of lioncelle

Noun

lioncelle (plural lioncelles)

  1. (specifically) Treated as feminine and applied figuratively to a woman; a lioness.
    • […] he would no more have thought of asking a young innocent girl to cast in her lot with him for better or for worse, than he would have sat down to play piquet with a boy who could not count the points of the game. Neither did the taming of a lioncelle tempt him a whit.1869, George Alfred Lawrence, Breaking a Butterfly; or, Blanche Ellerslie’s Ending, volume I, Tinsley Brothers, page 58

Questions about lioncelles

What is lioncelles the plural of?
Lioncelles is the plural of lioncelle.

Words near lioncelles in the dictionary

  1. lionback
  2. lionburger
  3. lionburgers
  4. lioncel
  5. lioncelle
  6. lioncelles
  7. lioncels
  8. liondom
  9. lionel
  10. lionels
  11. lionesque

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