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curtal
[ kur-tl ]
adjective
- Archaic. wearing a short frock:
a curtal friar.
- Obsolete. brief; curtailed.
noun
- a 16th-century bassoon.
- Obsolete. an animal with a docked tail.
curtal
/ ˈɜːə /
adjective
- cut short
- (of friars) wearing a short frock
noun
- an animal whose tail has been docked
- something that is cut short
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yvlog History and Origins
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yvlog History and Origins
Origin of curtal1
C16: from Old French courtault animal whose tail has been docked, from court short, from Latin curtus; see curt
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Here is a thong indeed, by the mass, though ich speak it; Tom Tankard's great bald curtal, I think, could not break it!
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Now I may go in and out as I will, being a curtal friar and not now remembered in these parts.
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One of the best arrows under his belt To the friar he let fly: The curtal friar with his steel buckler Did put that arrow by.
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I with ‘gallant curtal axe,’ dressed as a youth.
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Hope is a curtal dog in some affairs: II.
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