Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A marsh.
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Examples
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Quanta ergo cum reverentia, quanto timore, quanta illuc humilitate accedere debet, ` a palude sua procedens et repens ranuncula vilis?
Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967
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Italians call _canna di palude_; smaller than _harundo_ (_Arundo donax_, the Greek [Greek: kanna] and Italian canna), it nevertheless often reaches a height of 6 or 7 feet '.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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Gorgone, dicono quella esser un isola in mezzo d'una palude.
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But in these passages, not only is the original word very loosely translated, but the original word itself was so loosely used that long ago Jerome had said it might mean any marsh plant, _quidquid in palude virens nascitur_.
The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868
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Rondel [etii] _ says: Hec belua Anglis, (vt dixi) Hore vocatur, & alio nomine Horlepoole & VVirlepoole etiam, ni fallor, earu {m} nimiru {m} omnium significatione, quòd impetuo suo & flatu vorticosas in mari tanquam palude procellas excitet.
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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Cujus armis ad pontem Bothwelliensem, succubuit Scotus: necnon Sedgmoriensi palude fusi Rebellos.
Biographical Memorials of James Oglethorpe Harris, Thaddeus M 1838
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Orus Grammaticus apud Etymologiet magni jluQorem ab adfita palude fic didam tradit.
Pomponii Melae De situ orbis libri tres: cum Petri Joannis Olivarii Valentini, viri in ... Pomponius Mela , Ermolao Barbaro, C . Julius Solinus 1782
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` a palude sua procedens et repens ranuncula vilis?
Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967
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siccare emulsa pingue palude solum, quod quondam caesis montis fodisse medullis
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a Maeotide palude» quae eft vitimus receifus mediterranei maris, cuius aditus*Bofporus
Sex. Avrel. Propertivs varietate lectionis et perpetva adnotatione illvstratvs Propertius, Sextus 1777
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