pelfray

English

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Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈpɛlfɹi/, /ˈpɛlfɹeɪ/

Noun

pelfray (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) pelf (Can we add an example for this sense?)
  2. (obsolete, figuratively) rubbish; trash
    • a. 1556, Thomas Cranmer, An Answer to a Crafty and Sophistical Cavillation devised by Stephen Gadiner
      beads, pardons, pilgrimages, and such other pelfray

References

pelfray in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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