egal
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of egal
1350–1400; Middle English egall < Anglo-French, Old French egal < Latin aequālis
Example Sentences
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He wrote and ordeyned lawes moste egal and iust He edityed vnto the Grekes a comon welthe stable, quyet and commendable.
From The Ship of Fools, Volume 1 by Barclay, Alexander
The expression "egal" she will probably have picked up from me.
From Lola or, The Thought and Speech of Animals by Blake, Agnes
Wer Rosen bricht die Finger sticht; Das ist mir ganz egal, Der bricht sie auch in Winter nicht, Und kits no Rose at all.
From The Breitmann Ballads by Leland, Charles Godfrey
He considerethe, and makethe Raysoun his guyde, As egal iuge enclyning to noo syde.
From Disguising at Hertford by Lydgate, John
—C'est tout egal; replied the commissary— —The devil it is! said I—but I will go to ten thousand Bastiles first— O England!
From The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Sterne, Laurence
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