poplare
Yola
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English populer, from Old French populaire and Latin populāris.
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editpoplare
- public
- 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 114, lines 19-21:
- —t'avance pace an livertie, an, wi'oute vlynch, ee garde o' generale reights an poplare vartue.
- to promote peace and liberty—the uncompromising guardian of common right and public virtue.
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 114