Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The lowest course of stones in a building.
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- noun obsolete, architecture The lowest
course ofstones in abuilding .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I will stop by periodically to get a lift during my depressing work a day world in "cubile hell".
Depression Sessions #2: Even more fun Ms Robinson 2007
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I have been moved from the art department to a cubile that is in the heart of cubicleville, USA.
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I have been moved from the art department to a cubile that is in the heart of cubicleville, USA.
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Asperum cultum et vitiosum caput, negligentiorem barbam, indictum argento odium, cubile humi positum, et quicquid ad laudem perversa via sequitur evita.
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Velocitas fuit tibi instar aquae, non excelles: quia ascendisti cubile patris tui, tune polluisti stratum meum, evanuit.
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996
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Mitte brachiolum teres, praetextate, puellulae. iam cubile adeat uiri.
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In the larger cities it is said that their cubile ferarum are full of sensation traps, which, when they set to phizzing, will involuntarily attract attention, during which moment the silent partners of the concern, who are at their post, make a clean sweep of all the checks lying about loose -- and this is the class, my dear sir, who were thrown into ecstacies by your able article.
A Controversy Between "Erskine" and "W. M." on the Practicability of Suppressing Gambling. 1862
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Pale Aurora began now to appear, "_Tiphoni croceum linquens cubile_," in vulgar parlance, day began to break.
The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 Various 1821
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Hoftilem ad tumulum Trojs fub mocnibus altis Juila mori« quae fortitus non pertulit ullos Nec vidoris heri tetigit captiva cubile!
P. Virgilii Maronis Opera Virgil, Gilbert Wakefield 1796
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Aut ubi fub lucem denfa inter nubila fefe Diverfi rumpent radii, aut ubi pallida furget Tithoni croccum linquens Aurora cubile;
P. Virgilii Maronis Opera Virgil, Gilbert Wakefield 1796
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