Anglo-Latin
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Anglo-Latin
First recorded in 1785–95
Example Sentences
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The Anglo-Latin riddler Tatwine — whose day job was archbishop of Canterbury — wrote these kinds of proto-cryptic aenigmata.
From New York Times • Sep. 9, 2021
To crack Old English riddles from the Exeter Book, you have to know about their Anglo-Latin predecessors.
From New York Times • Sep. 9, 2021
Anglo-Latin riddlers often put their collections together in a very particular order involving elaborate acrostics.
From New York Times • Sep. 9, 2021
But even before this time Anglo-Latin and Anglo-Norman literature was similarly affected.
From The Troubadours by Chaytor, H.J.
Alcuin and Aldhelm were the chief Anglo-Latin poets.
From Studies from Court and Cloister: being essays, historical and literary dealing mainly with subjects relating to the XVIth and XVIIth centuries by Stone, J. M. (Jean Mary)
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