Meaning of ycleped | Babel Free

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Alternative spelling of yclept.

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Examples

“There is a tall long-sided Dame, / (But wondrous light⟳) ycleped Fame, / That like⟳ a thin Camelion Bourds / He[r] self on Air, and eats her words: […]”

“Sometimes in consequence of some flagrant villany, he would abscond from the garrison, […] squatting himself down on the edge of a pond catching fish⟳ for hours together, and bearing no little resemblance to that notable bird ycleped the Mud-poke.”

“The event is described in the metrical history of Rouen, composed by a minstrel ycleped Poirier, the limper.”

“We by no means mean⟳ to say⟳ that Lady Anne's happy and pleasant little party would not have⟳ received a new impetus if a Moore, a Bulwer, a Hook, or those monopolists of beauty and wit, Mrs. Gore and Mrs. Norton, or those daughters of Apollo, ycleped Mitford, Pardoe, and Strickland had been mingled with her "blue spirits and grey;" but we do mean⟳ to say⟳ that they were very happy without them, and that much, perhaps all, of the "feast of reason⟳ and the flow⟳ of soul," for which these distinguished individuals are loved, and sought, and honoured, would have⟳ been lost in the melée of dancing, singing, chattering, and flirting, to which the major part of the visitants were devoted.”

“The damsel, ycleped Louisa, made rather a shame-faced obeisance, and her old grandmother went on to inform⟳ me that she had only lately been forgiven by the overseer for an attempt⟳ to run⟳ away from the plantation.”

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