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Synonyms for lamb

Grammar : Noun
Spell : lam
Phonetic Transcription : læm

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Définition of lamb

Origin :
  • Old English lamb "lamb," from Proto-Germanic *lambaz (cf. Old Norse, Old Frisian, Gothic lamb, Middle Dutch, Dutch lam, Middle High German lamp, German Lamm "lamb"). Common to the Germanic languages, but with no certain cognates outside them. Old English plural was lomberu. Applied to persons (especially young Church members, gentle souls, etc.) from late Old English. Also sometimes used ironically for cruel or rough characters (e.g. Kirke's Lambs in wars of 1684-86). Lamb's-wool (adj.) is from 1550s.
  • noun dupe
  • noun innocent
Example sentences :
  • The bones of lamb are pink, while those of mutton are white.
  • Extract from : « Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 3 » by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
  • The joint is jagged in lamb, but smooth and round in mutton.
  • Extract from : « Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 3 » by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
  • This last referred, not to K. Le Moyne, of course, but to the lamb stew.
  • Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • Lamb and Coleridge, on the other hand, have praised "Lear" as a world's masterpiece.
  • Extract from : « The Man Shakespeare » by Frank Harris
  • Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
  • Extract from : « An Explanation of Luther's Small Catechism » by Joseph Stump
  • Her lamb had a fleece of diamonds, and her palm-branch had become the colour of heaven.
  • Extract from : « The Dream » by Emile Zola
  • The lamb of pasture-fed animals must be incontestably superior.
  • Extract from : « In the Heart of Vosges » by Matilda Betham-Edwards
  • "She went off like a lamb, sir," said the girl, drying her eyes.
  • Extract from : « Night and Morning, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • Fill it with slices of the lean of cold mutton, or lamb, seasoned also.
  • Extract from : « Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches » by Eliza Leslie
  • Our lamb was black: and at the hour of his untimely death a storm was coming up.
  • Extract from : « It Happened in Egypt » by C. N. Williamson
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