creance
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of creance
1300–50; Middle English < Middle French < Vulgar Latin *crēdentia credence
Example Sentences
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While the owl will be attached to a creance — “it’s like a zip line,” she explained — for a controlled flight, Machu will fly free.
From New York Times • Oct. 2, 2014
The creance wrapped itself three times round the nearest bough.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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A fine peregrine falcon, with her music jingling in the whistling wind als clear, and her creance trailing behind her, was beating along above his head toward the top of ' one of the elms.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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Very carefully and kindly, and with the best intentions, she wound the creance up quite wrong.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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Wherfore it semethe wel, that God lovethe hem and is plesed with hire creance, for hire gode dedes.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 09 Asia, Part II by Hakluyt, Richard
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