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1513 Life Henry V (1911) 160 A greate assemblie of estates of Fraunce, vulgarlie called a Parlyament, wherein the three estates of the Realme were present.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VII f. xxviij^v The societe of saynct George, vulgarely called the order of the garter.

1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie i. i The mount Rhodope vulgarly called the mountes of siluer.

1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. ii. 50 The chiefest..is called Teucria, but they are vulgarly called the Iles of Diomedes.

1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures xxviii. 108 That [river].. enters into the sea in the Empire of Sornaan, vulgarly stiled Siam.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 331/2 For the Pitchfork (or Pikel, which we vulgarly call it) it is an Instrument much used in Husbandry for their Loading and Stacking of Hay and Corn.

a1718 W. Penn Life in Wks. (1726) I. 16 Being the Fourth Instant, vulgarly called Sunday.

1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones I. ii. iv. 100 The Chandler's Shop, the known Seat of all the News, or as it is vulgarly called, Gossiping. View more context for this quotation

a1773 J. Hutchins Hist. Dorset (1774) I. 589 The parsonage house, vulgarly called the vicarage house, stood about the middle of the island.

1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xiv. 406 He was what is vulgarly called a disinterested man.

1861 M. Pattison in Westm. Rev. Apr. 410 This original factory and staple of the German merchants, vulgarly called ‘The Steelyard’,..still stands on the banks of the Thames.

1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 95 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV Many of the species..are here known as fire-flies, or, more vulgarly, lightning-bugs.