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- noun Plural form of
tatch .
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Examples
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For he that gentle is will draw him unto gentle tatches, and to follow the customs of noble gentlemen.
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Ah, said the cowherd, I weened not this, but I may believe it well, for he had never no tatches of me.
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Nay, nay, said Merlin, these be but japes to that he shall do; for he shall prove a noble knight of prowess, as good as any is living, and gentle and courteous, and of good tatches, and passing true of his promise, and never shall outrage.
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Ah! fair damosel, said Balin, worthiness, and good tatches, and good deeds, are not only in arrayment, but manhood and worship is hid within man's person, and many a worshipful knight is not known unto all people, and therefore worship and hardiness is not in arrayment.
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Nay, nay, said Merlin, these be but japes to that he shall do; for he shall prove a noble knight of prowess, as good as any is living, and gentle and courteous, and of good tatches, and passing true of his promise, and never shall outrage.
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Ah, said the cowherd, I weened not this, but I may believe it well, for he had never no tatches of me.
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Truly, madam, said Linet unto her sister, well may he be a king's son, for he hath many good tatches on him, for he is courteous and mild, and the most suffering man that ever I met withal.
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For he that gentle is will draw him unto gentle tatches, and to follow the customs of noble gentlemen.
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His legs were as tough as beams of ash-wood, and in his heart was the hunger of noble tatches and deeds.
The Blue Flower 1902
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The more the father loveth his child, the more busily he teacheth and chastiseth him and holdeth him the more strait under chastising and lore; and when the child is most loved of the father it seemeth that he loveth him not; for he beateth and grieveth him oft lest he draw to evil manners and tatches, and the more the child is like to the father, the better the father loveth him.
Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus Robert Steele 1902
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