cunabulan.
/kjuːˈnabjʊlə/ 1. With singular and plural agreement. A cradle; figurative the place where anything is nurtured in its beginnings, the earliest abode.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > types of bed > [noun] > cot or cradle
cradlec1000
cader?c1225
crete1340
cunablesa1549
rocker1566
wicker1646
crib1649
cather?1748
cunabula1774
cot1813
co-sleeper1997
the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > [noun] > the first part or beginning > the earliest stage(s) > place which nurtures early stage
cradle1590
swaddling-band1602
cunabula1864
1774 G. White Let. 26 Feb. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 176 The swallow and the house-martin..raising and securely fixing crusts or shells of loam as cunabula for their young.
1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. (at cited word) The cunabula of the human race.
2. With plural agreement. Applied to the extant copies of the earliest printed books; = incunabula n.
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1846 J. E. Worcester Universal Dict. Eng. Lang. (citing Athenæum).
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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