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  • adverb Obsolete spelling of about.

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Examples

  • August 12th, 2009 12: 58 am ET come on! lets all grow up and get over it! leave the man alone if he had cheated so what and who cares? it is his private life. aboute the air fare, do you expect the governor to fly economy class??

    Sanford defends expensive travel, denies divorce 2009

  • (Rolls) 6941 Hire bodi wi a mantel, a wimpel [v.r. whympel] aboute hire heued. c1374 CHAUCER Troylus II.

    Medallion Vulcan | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009

  • Mary wrote to Bedingfield that Sands was "a pson off an evyll opinion, and not fyt to remayne aboute or sayde systers p [er] son."

    From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558 2008

  • Its first appearance in English was in a 1390 poem: ''A litel Serpent on the ground, Which rampeth al aboute round.''

    "She seems like a real fighter, someone who would stick it to the lobbyist and special-interest groups that have run ramped in Washington." Ann Althouse 2008

  • It's estimated Boots's stake in the ownership group is now aboute 27 per cent, which means there's likely a big hole to fill in Nashville.

    Archive 2008-06-01 James Mirtle 2008

  • Can you give me a link to a web site with more picture,i just love this house its my dream house and i want to se it inside and out side from allot of angles…..im seriusly thinking aboute building this house for me…identical, i dont care if somebody hase it i just love it maximo carcueva

    Modern House in Tempe, Arizona 2007

  • A fayre quilte of crymson sattin, vj breadths, iij yardes 3 quarters naile deepe, all lozenged over with silver twiste, in the midst a cinquefoile within a garland of ragged staves, fringed rounde aboute with

    Kenilworth 2004

  • The frame covered with velvet, bounde aboute the edge with goulde lace, and studded with gilte nailes.

    Kenilworth 2004

  • Aftre gon men, be many cytees and townes, and grete contrees, that it were to longe to telle, unto the cytee of Cornaa, that was wont to be so gret, that the walles abouten holden 25 myle aboute.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • A carpett of crimson velvet, richlie embr. with my Lo. posie, beares and ragged staves, etc., of clothe of goulde and silver, garnished upon the seames and aboute with golde lace, fringed accordinglie, lyned with crimson taffata sarsenett, being 3 breadths of velvet, one yard 3 quarters long.

    Kenilworth 2004

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