"nuby" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: nubies [plural]
Rhymes: -ʌbi Head templates: {{en-noun}} nuby (plural nubies)
  1. An article of clothing similar to a scarf or a shawl. Categories (topical): Clothing
    Sense id: en-nuby-en-noun-r14tabOy Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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    }
  ],
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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            "Entry maintenance"
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        },
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        },
        {
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
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          "orig": "en:Clothing",
          "parents": [
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1 June 1804, Henry James, “Pandora”, in The New York Sun:",
          "text": "She wore entwined about her head an article which Mrs. Dangerfield spoke of as a \"nuby,\" a knitted pink scarf concealing her hair, encircling her neck and having among its convolutions a hole for her perfectly expressionless face.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1902, Ellen Glasgow, The Battle Ground:",
          "text": "\"The little white nuby in my top drawer, Betty—I felt a chill striking the back of my neck.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1904, Ellen Glasgow, The Deliverance; A Romance of the Virginia Tobacco Fields:",
          "text": "\"I met her at a church festival one Christmas Eve,\" responded Aunt Saidie, in a high-pitched, rasping voice. \"The same evening that I got this pink crocheted nuby.\" She touched a small pointed shawl about her shoulders.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An article of clothing similar to a scarf or a shawl."
      ],
      "id": "en-nuby-en-noun-r14tabOy",
      "links": [
        [
          "scarf",
          "scarf"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "rhymes": "-ʌbi"
    }
  ],
  "word": "nuby"
}
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    {
      "form": "nubies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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    }
  ],
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "Rhymes:English/ʌbi",
        "Rhymes:English/ʌbi/2 syllables",
        "en:Clothing"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1 June 1804, Henry James, “Pandora”, in The New York Sun:",
          "text": "She wore entwined about her head an article which Mrs. Dangerfield spoke of as a \"nuby,\" a knitted pink scarf concealing her hair, encircling her neck and having among its convolutions a hole for her perfectly expressionless face.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1902, Ellen Glasgow, The Battle Ground:",
          "text": "\"The little white nuby in my top drawer, Betty—I felt a chill striking the back of my neck.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1904, Ellen Glasgow, The Deliverance; A Romance of the Virginia Tobacco Fields:",
          "text": "\"I met her at a church festival one Christmas Eve,\" responded Aunt Saidie, in a high-pitched, rasping voice. \"The same evening that I got this pink crocheted nuby.\" She touched a small pointed shawl about her shoulders.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An article of clothing similar to a scarf or a shawl."
      ],
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        [
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          "scarf"
        ]
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  ],
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    {
      "rhymes": "-ʌbi"
    }
  ],
  "word": "nuby"
}

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