Ebor.

/ ˈiːbɔː /

abbreviation for

Origin of Ebor.¹

Latin: (Archbishop) of York

Darquelnoy and Ebor accepted the cups and the orderly left, making a sloppy tentacle-cross salute, which the two ignored.

Ebor., whether they be good or bad, with sufficient positiveness and distinctness to prevent their being again mistaken.

The Ebor daws are but the first of a succession of colonies extending along the side of the Cheddar valley.

And beneath them, Serenissimus princeps Jacobus dux Ebor hanc fenestram.

Probably Lord Brooke blundered from the resemblance between ebor (“ivory”) and ebon, in Latin “ebenum.”

April 23, 2024inveterate

[in-vet-er-it ]

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