all-a-mort
English
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]all-a-mort (not comparable) (obsolete)
- Alternative form of alamort (“dejected”)
- c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
- How fares my Kate? What, sweet one, all-a-mort?
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- [Francis] Grose [et al.] (1811) “All-a-mort”, in Lexicon Balatronicum. A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence. […], London: […] C. Chappell, […], →OCLC.