cornuted
AmericanEtymology
Origin of cornuted
Example Sentences
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Literally to crown all, his ruddy hair was twisted upward from each temple in a cornuted fashion that was most vividly picturesque.
From The Day of Days An Extravaganza by Brown, Arthur William
How deemest thou of yonder cornuted, who is drunken in his heedlessness and weeteth not the wiles of women?
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 09 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
For this—to be cornuted in mine age And die a by-word?
From The Scarlet Stigma A Drama in Four Acts by Smith, James Edgar
I have been, in return, telling him the story of the Irish schoolmaster who puzzled the magistrate's bench by a petition about a small cornuted animal, meaning a kid.
From Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 1 by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
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