egal
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of egal
1350–1400; Middle English egall < Anglo-French, Old French egal < Latin aequālis
Example Sentences
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—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 Laurence Sterne
Vere I vonce on de road, his will, Vere wurst mir und egal.
From The Breitmann Ballads by Charles Godfrey Leland
That young lady's face expressed general complacency, politeness, and tout m'est egal.
From Love Me Little, Love Me Long by Charles Reade
The following epitaph was written at the time :— "Ci git cet Ecossais celebre, Ce calculateur sans egal, Qui, par les regles de l'algebre, A mis la France a l'Hopital."
From Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 1 by Charles Mackay
"C'est egal, of all the follies and stupidities I have committed for them I would not have missed one!"
From The American by Henry James
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