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sellaries

sellaries is the plural of sellary.

Meaning of sellary

Noun (1)

sellary (plural sellaries)

  1. (obsolete) A male prostitute.
    • tuncque primum ignota antea vocabula reperta sunt sellariorum et spintriarum ex foeditate loci1598, Richard Greenway, transl., Annals, translation of Ab excessu Divi Augusti historiarum libri by P. Cornelius Tacitus, published 1622, book VI, section i, page 121

Noun (2)

sellary (plural sellaries)

  1. (obsolete, rare) A public gathering place with benches or stools for sitting on.
    • Seppe anche da altri banditi à forza di tormenti, che per opra di Mataloni, e del fratello con tenerui anche mano il Perrone, il Graſſo, & altri Capi di banditi, che già s’erano auuelenate l’acque del ſotterraneo Formale di Napoli con metterui de i veleni, e del frumento, e fatte le debite...1650, James Howell, transl., An Exact Hiſtory of the late Revolutions in Naples; and of their Monſtrous Succeſſes, not to be parallel’d by any Antient or Modern Hiſtory., London: R. Lowndes at the...

Questions about sellaries

What is sellaries the plural of?
Sellaries is the plural of sellary.

Words near sellaries in the dictionary

  1. sellanders
  2. sellar
  3. Sellards
  4. Sellardses
  5. Sellaria
  6. sellaries
  7. Sellars
  8. Sellarsian
  9. Sellarsianism
  10. sellary
  11. sellathon

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