- a variation of numbles.
nombles
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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The English yeoman left for them a keg of ale, or a basket of loaves, beneath the hollins green, as sauce for their meal of "nombles of the dere."
From Hereward, the Last of the English by Kingsley, Charles
They washed together, and wiped both; And set till their dinner: Bread and wine they had enough, And nombles of the deer; Swans and pheasants they had full good, And fowls of the rivèr.
From Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse by Various
Then he fetch to Little John, The nombles of a doe, Good bread, and full good wine.
From Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse by Various
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