Ble
variant of -able (soluble); occurring first in words of Latin origin that came into English through French, later in words taken directly from Latin.
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers.
Historical Examples
Letters of John Calvin, Volume II (of 4) Jules Bonnet
The Manxman Hall Caine
Anne of Geierstein, Volume I (of 2) Sir Walter Scott
Hours of Exercise in the Alps John Tyndall
Tartarin On The Alps Alphonse Daudet
Letters to an Unknown Prosper Mrime
The Letters of Charles Dickens Charles Dickens
History of the Reformation in the Sixteenth Century, Vol 2 J. H. Merle D’Aubign
A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike Richard Rainolde
Napoleon’s Letters to Josephine Henry Foljambe Hall
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
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