bowe
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Noun edit
bowe (plural bowes)
Verb edit
bowe (third-person singular simple present bowes, present participle bowing, simple past and past participle bowed)
- Obsolete spelling of bow.
- c. 1691, John Aubrey, Naturall Historie of Wiltshire:
- We have a custome, that when one sneezes, every one els putts off his hatt, and bowes, and cries God bless ye Sir.
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Etymology edit
From Old English boga, from Proto-West Germanic *bogō, in turn from Proto-Germanic *bugô.
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References edit
- “boue, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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