mure
Americannoun
verb (used with object)
verb
Etymology
Origin of mure
1400–50; late Middle English muren (v.) < Middle French murer < Late Latin mūrāre verbal derivative of Latin mūrus wall
Example Sentences
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From Time Magazine Archive
And so with drawing the hole people, he came to a dyck in a mure edge, upoun the sowth-west syd of Mauchlyne, upoun the which he ascended.
From The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) by Laing, David
Next we drove to San Paolo fuori le mure, of the burning of which Thorwaldsen's Museum possesses a painting by Leopold Robert, but which at that time had been entirely re-built in the antique style.
From Recollections of My Childhood and Youth by Brandes, Georg Morris Cohen
Walter and Virginia came up to the station, and parted with their sister with fondness that was much mure refreshing, Walter reiterating that his was the only plan.
From Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 2 by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
It is no mure wonderful that I should live again than that I do live.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 7 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions by Ingersoll, Robert Green
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