pelfray

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pelfray (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) pelf (Can we add an example for this sense?)
  2. (obsolete, figurative) rubbish; trash
    • a. 1556, Thomas Cranmer, An Answer to a Crafty and Sophistical Cavillation devised by Stephen Gadiner:
      beads, pardons, pilgrimages, and such other pelfray

References

“pelfray”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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