Nashe

Nash

/ (næʃ) /

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noun

Thomas. 1567–1601, English pamphleteer, satirist, and novelist, author of the first picaresque novel in English, The Unfortunate Traveller, or the Life of Jack Wilton (1594)

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Words nearby Nashe

NASD, NASDAQ, naseberry, Naseby, Nash, Nashe, nashi, Nashik, Nasho, Nash, Ogden, Nashua

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How to use Nashe in a sentence

He looked hard at Edward Henry, as though to stare down the memory of the failure of Nashe's verse.
The Regent|E. Arnold Bennett
But four years later, as we have seen, Nashe confounds elves with fairies in deriving all alike from fauns and dryads.
The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream'|Compiled by Frank Sidgwick
In the expression "killcow," Nashe alludes to Shakespeare's father's trade.
Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592|Arthur Acheson
But Nashe describes him as a “shifting companion that ran through every art and throve by none.”
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 15, Slice 8|Various

He often rails against the universal use of carriages, and quotes the words of honest Nashe to that effect.
Bracebridge Hall|Washington Irving