See thole in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1922, Francis Lynde, Pirates' Hope, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 115:",
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"text": "Nor was long Poſſeſſion in molendino regio, of receiving Multures for all Corns of a Barony promiſcuouſly without exception of Teind, found to bring the Teind under a Thirlage, Except ſuch as tholed Fire and Water there.",
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"ref": "1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon [pseudonym; James Leslie Mitchell], “Ploughing”, in Sunset Song: A Novel (A Scots Quair; 1), London: Jarrolds, →OCLC; republished as Tom Crawford, editor, Sunset Song (Canongate Classics; 12), Edinburgh, New York, N.Y.: Canongate Books, 2008, →ISBN, page 34:",
"text": "But then they heard an awful scream that made them leap to their feet, it was as though mother were being torn and torn in the teeth of beasts and couldn't thole it longer; […]",
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},
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},
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},
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}
],
"etymology_text": "Anglicization of Latin tholus (“cupola, dome, rotunda”), from Ancient Greek θόλος (thólos, “dome, vault”), further etymology uncertain but possibly cognate with θᾰ́λᾰμος (thálamos, “bedroom; inner chamber”) and/or English dale. Doublet of tholus and tholos.",
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{
"form": "tholes",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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}
],
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
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"word": "tholobate"
}
],
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{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"en:Architecture"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1828, [Algernon Herbert], “Ba-bel”, in Nimrod: A Discourse on Certain Passages of History and Fable, volume I, London: Printed [by Thomas Davison] for Richard Priestley, →OCLC, page 206:",
"text": "Philostratus relates that the king's house in Babylon had a roof of brass, which shone like lightning, and that in that house there was a chamber, whose ceiling was a thole (that is, a concave hemisphere) made in imitation of some system of the heaven, and with sapphire-coloured stones, […] and from the thole were suspended four golden doves, or iynges, who were called the Tongues of the Gods.",
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}
],
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"A cupola, a dome, a rotunda; a tholus."
],
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"architecture",
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"cupola",
"cupola"
],
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"dome",
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],
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"rotunda",
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],
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"tholus",
"tholus"
]
],
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"(architecture) A cupola, a dome, a rotunda; a tholus."
],
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"architecture"
]
}
],
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"Received-Pronunciation"
]
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"ipa": "/θoʊl/",
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{
"rhymes": "-əʊl"
}
],
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}
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