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sarpe

sarpe noun: a collar or neck-ring.

Noun

sarpe (plural sarpes)

  1. (obsolete) A collar or neck-ring.
    • sir Launcelot had twelue coursers folowynge hym / and on euery courser sat a yonge gentylman / and alle they were arayed in grene veluet with sarpys of gold about their quarters / and the hors trapped in the same wyse doune to the helys with many ouches y sette with stones and perlys in gold to the...1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xiiij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XX

Forms of sarpe

pluralsarpes

Origin of sarpe

Unknown

Questions about sarpe

What does sarpe mean?
Sarpe means a collar or neck-ring.
What part of speech is sarpe?
Sarpe is a noun.
What is the plural of sarpe?
The plural of sarpe is sarpes.

Words near sarpe in the dictionary

  1. sarpanches
  2. Sarpang
  3. Sarpanit
  4. Sarpanitu
  5. sarpat
  6. sarpe
  7. sarpech
  8. sarpeches
  9. sarpes
  10. sarpesh
  11. sarpeshes

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