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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inkle.

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Examples

  • She had a ihort compact body with a high full bust and delicate wrists and inkles.

    The Lighthouse James, P. D. 1988

  • He hath ribands of all the colours i’ the rainbow; points more than all the lawyers in Bohemia can learnedly handle, though they come to him by the gross; inkles, caddisses, cambrics, lawns: why, he sings ’em over, as they were gods or goddesses.

    Act IV. Scene III. The Winter’s Tale 1914

  • He hath ribbons of an the colours i 'the rainbow; points more than all the lawyers in Bohemia can learnedly handle, though they come to him by the gross: inkles, caddisses, cambrics, lawns: why, he sings 'em over as they were gods or goddesses; you would think a smock were a she-angel, he so chants to the sleeve-hand and the work about the square on't.

    The Winter's Tale 1610

  • He hath ribbons of all the colours i 'the rainbow; points, more than all the lawyers in Bohemia can learnedly handle, though they come to him by the gross; inkles, caddisses, cambrics, lawns; why he sings 'em over as they were gods or goddesses; you would think a smock were a she-angel, he so chants to the sleeve-hand and the work about the square on't.

    The Winter's Tale William Shakespeare 1590

  • W.y did G.W. Bush always have "Forehead W.inkles"?

    Yahoo! Buzz US: Top Stories 2009

  • He hath ribbons of an the colours i’ the rainbow; points more than all the lawyers in Bohemia can learnedly handle, though they come to him by the gross: inkles, caddisses, cambrics, lawns: why, he sings ’em over as they were gods or goddesses; you would think a smock were a she-angel, he so chants to the sleeve-hand and the work about the square on’t.

    The Winter’s Tale 2004

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