peece
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Noun edit
peece (plural peeces)
- (obsolete) A fortress.
- 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, VII, xxix:
- The Prince beheld the peece, which site and art / Impregnable had made on every part.
- 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, VII, xxix:
Verb edit
peece (third-person singular simple present peeces, present participle peecing, simple past and past participle peeced)
References edit
- “peece”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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Etymology edit
From Middle English pece, from Old French piece, from Late Latin pettia.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
peece
References edit
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 61