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- proper noun A medieval
English short form of the malegiven name Nicholas ; very rare today. - proper noun A patronymic
surname .
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Examples
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The other film, Sévigné by Marta Balletbò-Coll, is about a famous theater director who falls in a love with a playwright.
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Going to the Coll was the most exciting thing that had yet happened in my outer life.
Surprised by Joy Lewis, C. S. 1955
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Fagging with us was as impersonal as the labourmarket in Victorian England; in that way, too, the Coll was a preparation for public life.
Surprised by Joy Lewis, C. S. 1955
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When the order of the Jesuits was suppressed by the pope in 1773, she founded fifteen new lay colleges, known as Collèges Thérésiens, and took a personal interest in the framing of the programme of studies and in the least detail of organization.
Belgium From the Roman Invasion to the Present Day Emile Cammaerts 1915
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In 1792 the two Irish colleges in Paris, namely the Collège des
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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The Jesuits opened at Dole, in the sixteenth century, a celebrated establishment known as the Collège de l'Arc, the most important in France after the Collège de la Flèche.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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If the wines have been scaled back for affordability, there seem to be no quality compromises coming from Coll, which is impressive at these prices.
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Keppoch, familiarly known as Coll of the Cows, for his skill in tracking his neighbour's cattle over the wildest mountains to the most secret coverts. [
Claverhouse Mowbray Morris 1879
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XXXIII, c. xxvii; cf. also Cassian, "Coll,", IX, XV) there may be observed traces of the threefold degree which was afterwards systematically developed by Dionysius the Areopagite.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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In their bios, he's known as "Billy O" and Shipman's nickname is "Coll."
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