childe
noun
a youth of noble birth.
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childe
1 American
[chahyld]
/ tʃaɪld /
noun
Archaic.
Childe
2
American
[chahyld]
/ tʃaɪld /
noun
childe
British
/ tʃaɪld /
noun
Etymology
Origin of childe
Spelling variant of child
Example Sentences
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"If the childe be mine, faire Ellen," he sayd, "Be mine, as you doe sweare, Then take you Cheshire and Lancashire both, And make that child your heyre."
From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various
Hely the priest brought vp ye childe Samuell.
From The Education of Children by Sherry, Richard
“If the offerer be content with these articles, than let his childe be admytted.”
From Schools, School-Books and Schoolmasters by Hazlitt, W. Carew
And the childe, in like manner, called such his godfathers or godmothers.”
From Folk-lore of Shakespeare by Thiselton-Dyer, Thomas Firminger
Buried Creature, daughter of Agnes Mathews, syngle woman, the seconde childe.
From Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature by Bardsley, Charles W.
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