Ayme
Marcel
[mar-sel] /marˈsɛl/ (Show IPA), 1902–67, French novelist and short-story writer.
Historical Examples
There is an old book on archery, entitled “ayme for Finsbury Archers,” 1628.
Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles Daniel Hack Tuke
For which great losse We ayme at nothing but his rotten flesh,Nor is that cruelty.
The Fatal Dowry Philip Massinger
With fifteen hundred bow-men bold; All chosen men of might, Who knew full well in time of neede To ayme their shafts arright.
A Book of Ballads, Volume 3 Various
How then ayme we at Peter Aretine, that is so wittie, hath such varietie, and frames so manie new words?
Shakespeare’s Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 Arthur Acheson
noun
Marcel (marsɛl). 1902–67, French writer: noted for his light and witty narratives
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