nates
Americannoun
plural noun
Etymology
Origin of nates
1675–85; < Latin natēs, plural of natis; generally used in the plural; akin to Greek nôton the back
Example Sentences
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Orson Welles is both director and star of this amalgam of scenes from five of Shakespeare's history plays in which the Bard's "bombard" of a buffoon domi nates the stage.
From Time Magazine Archive
According to Jules Guerin, the child named Gustav Evrard was born with a thigh ending in two legs and two imperfect feet depending from the left nates.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
Spiritual development germi- 66:12 nates not from seed sown in the soil of material hopes, but when these decay, Love propagates anew the higher joys of Spirit, which have no taint of earth.
From Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy
My bad Latin you properly correct; but natales for nates was an inadvertency: I knew better.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas
Such children may be ultimately attacked by indolent ulcers on the nates and lower extremities, the results of urinous excoriations.'
From The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother by George H. (George Henry) Napheys
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