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English
Noun
nombles pl (plural only)
- Alternative form of numbles
1800, James Hogg, The Mysterious Bride:[…] as she had seen the red blood and the new grave, when she was a little girl, and ran home and mentioned it to her grandfather, who charged her as she valued her life never to mention that again, as it was only the nombles and hide of a deer which he himself had buried there.
References
Middle French
Noun
nombles m pl
- entrails of a pig, cow, deer etc. viewed as food
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (nombles)