| rumour Oct 26th 2013, 01:13, by Equinox | | | | Line 9: | Line 9: | | | #*: '''Rumour''' had it (though not proved) that she descended from the house of the lords Talbot de Malahide | | #*: '''Rumour''' had it (though not proved) that she descended from the house of the lords Talbot de Malahide | | | #*{{quote-book|year=1922|author=[[w:Michael Arlen|Michael Arlen]]|title=“Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days|chapter=1/1/2|url=http://openlibrary.org/works/OL1519647W|passage=There were '''rumours''', new rumours every morning, delightful and outrageous rumours, so that the lumps in the porridge were swallowed without comment and the fish-cakes were eaten without contumely.}} | | #*{{quote-book|year=1922|author=[[w:Michael Arlen|Michael Arlen]]|title=“Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days|chapter=1/1/2|url=http://openlibrary.org/works/OL1519647W|passage=There were '''rumours''', new rumours every morning, delightful and outrageous rumours, so that the lumps in the porridge were swallowed without comment and the fish-cakes were eaten without contumely.}} | | | + | # {{cx|obsolete|lang=en}} A prolonged, indistinct noise. | | | + | #: {{rfquotek|Shakespeare}} | | | | | | | | [[cy:rumour]] | | [[cy:rumour]] |
Latest revision as of 01:13, 26 October 2013 English[edit] Wikipedia rumour (countable and uncountable, plural rumours) - UK and Canada spelling of rumor.
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses Episode 16
- Rumour had it (though not proved) that she descended from the house of the lords Talbot de Malahide
- 1922, Michael Arlen, chapter 1/1/2, "Piracy": A Romantic Chronicle of These Days[1]:
- There were rumours, new rumours every morning, delightful and outrageous rumours, so that the lumps in the porridge were swallowed without comment and the fish-cakes were eaten without contumely.
- (obsolete) A prolonged, indistinct noise.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
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