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† ˈpomely, a. Obs.
Forms: 5 pomely, pomly, pomelee (also Sc. pommill, pombil, pompyll, poumle), 7 pomele.
[ad. OF. pomelé (mod.F. pommelé) marked with round spots, dappled, f. OF. pomel little apple: see pommel, and cf. dappled.]
Marked with rounded spots, dappled.
c1386Chaucer Prol. 616 This Reue sat vp on a ful good stot That was al pomely grey. c1400Mandeville (1839) xxviii. 288 In Arabye þei ben clept Gerfauntz, þat is, a best pomelee or spotted. c1420Pallad. on Husb. iv. 829 The pomly gray for hym y vndirtake. c1425Wyntoun Cron. iv. iii. 217 Apone a coursere pommill [v. rr. pombil, poumle, pomely, pompyll] gray Adressaly he sat. 1460Lybeaus Disc. 844 Upon a pomely palfray. [1658Phillips, Pomele⁓gryse, (old word) dapple-gray.] |