Definitions

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  • proper noun A patronymic surname.

Etymologies

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From Cole + the patronymic suffix -s.

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Examples

  • Philadelphia: Porter and Coales, Publishers, 1872.

    Eliza’s Freedom Road Jerdine Nolen 2011

  • Philadelphia: Porter and Coales, Publishers, 1872.

    Eliza’s Freedom Road Jerdine Nolen 2011

  • Philadelphia: Porter and Coales, Publishers, 1872.

    Eliza’s Freedom Road Jerdine Nolen 2011

  • Philadelphia: Porter and Coales, Publishers, 1872.

    Eliza’s Freedom Road Jerdine Nolen 2011

  • Relique, and finding the Coales there placed insted thereof.

    The Decameron 2004

  • Cabinet being lifted uppe, he saw the same to bee full of Coales.

    The Decameron 2004

  • Feast of Saint Anthony is to bee solemnized, against the preparation whereof, and to kindle your zeale with the greater fervencie: he put the Casket with the Coales into my hand, meaning, let you see the Feather, at some more fitting season.

    The Decameron 2004

  • And the Coales wherewith the said Phoenix was roasted, I put into another Casket, in all respects so like to the former, that many times I have taken one for another.

    The Decameron 2004

  • In sted whereof, he found Coales, which he avouched to be those very coals, wherewith the same Phoenix was roasted.

    The Decameron 2004

  • Onyon at his Inne, where closely they discovered to him, what they had done, delivering him his Feather againe: which the yeare following, did yeeld him as much money, as now the Coales had done.

    The Decameron 2004

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