hault
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Old French hault, French haut. See haughty.
Adjective edit
hault (comparative more hault, superlative most hault)
- (obsolete) Lofty; haughty.[1]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Through support of countenance proud and hault
- 1567, Ovid, “The Twelfth Booke”, in Arthur Golding, transl., The XV. Bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, Entytuled Metamorphosis, […], London: […] Willyam Seres […], →OCLC:
- Ixions sonnes, who was so stout of courage and so hault,
As that he durst on Junos love attempt to give assault.
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
hault (third-person singular simple present haults, present participle haulting, simple past and past participle haulted)
References edit
- ^ “hault”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams edit
Luxembourgish edit
Verb edit
hault
Middle French edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Old French haut, halt, from a conflation of Latin altus and Frankish *hauh, *hōh (“high, tall, elevated”).
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
hault m (feminine singular haulte, masculine plural hauls, feminine plural haultes)
- high; high up
- (figuratively) high; elevated
Descendants edit
- French: haut