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English
Noun
sheete (plural sheetes)
- Obsolete spelling of sheet.
1828, Various, The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 12,:Lavater reporteth a historie of a parish priest in Germanie, that disguised himselfe with a white sheete about him, and at midnight came into the chamber of a rich woman that was in bed, and fashioning himself like a spirit, hee thought to put her in such feare, that shee would procure a conjuror or exorcist to talke with him, or else speake to him herselfe.
1592, Philippe de Mornay, A Discourse of Life and Death:No, no, most happie in this happles case, To die with thee, and dieng thee embrace: My bodie ioynde with thine, my mouth with thine, My mouth, whose moisture burning sighes haue dried: To be in one selfe tombe, and one selfe chest, And wrapt with thee in one selfe sheete to rest.
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