stere
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of stere
1790–1800; < French stère < Greek stereós solid
Example Sentences
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“Abouten his char ther wenten white alauns, Twenty and mo as gret as any stere, To hunten at the leon or the dere.”
From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Lower, Mark Antony
O werste of alle wicke, Of conscience whom no pricke Mai stere, lo, what thou hast do!
From Confessio Amantis, or, Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins by Macaulay, G. C. (George Campbell)
Lo thus, mi Sone, it mai thee stere Of swevenes forto take kepe, For ofte time a man aslepe Mai se what after schal betide.
From Confessio Amantis, or, Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins by Macaulay, G. C. (George Campbell)
Ye be my lyf! ye be myn herty's stere!
From The Book of Humorous Verse by Wells, Carolyn
Was no stightlyng with stere ne no stithe ropes, Ne no sayle, þat might serue for unsound wedur.
From Early English Alliterative Poems in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century by Morris, Richard
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