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Middle English
Etymology 1
From holgh (“hollow”, noun), influenced by the meaning of hol, hole (“hollow, concave”, adjective).
Adjective
holwe
- hollow
- c. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue: The Clerk's Tale, ll. 290–291:
And he nas nat right fat, I undertake, but looked holwe, and therto sobrely...- And he too was not fat, that I take, But he looked hollow, moreover, abstemiously.
- holewe, holow, holowe, holo, holu, holuo, holw, holgh, holȝ, holȝe, holh, holeh, holeuh, hologh, hologhe, holoȝe, holough, holouȝ, holouȝe, holowh, holugh, holuȝ, holuȝe, holwgh, holwȝ, holwh
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Etymology 2
Noun
holwe (plural holwes)
- Alternative form of holgh