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English
Noun
archæologue (plural archæologues)
- Obsolete spelling of archaeologue.
1853, [Nicholas] Wiseman, Essays on Various Subjects, volume III, London: Charles Dolman, page 495:In this little town resides the learned Cav. Borghesi, perhaps the first antiquarian scholar in Italy; consulted in his retreat by the first archæologues of Germany, for his extraordinary sagacity in antiquarian difficulties, and his vast acquaintance with every department of classical literature.
1911, The South Wales Coast from Chepstow to Aberystwyth, page 39:You need not care only for the past, or be an archæologue or romancer, to enjoy this land of Merlin and the Tylwyth Teg, and once you have come under its “cyfaredd,” as the poets say, you will get to like it better and better every year you return to it.
1936, Ellery Sedgwick, “The Fan and the Sword”, in The Atlantic Monthly, volume 158, number 2, page 130, column 1:Originally, as the archæologues will tell you, the fan was a sceptre, shaped more or less like a mighty paper-cutter.
French
Noun
archæologue m or f by sense (plural archæologues)
- Obsolete form of archéologue.