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Middle English
Etymology
From Old English þurh, þuruh, from Proto-Germanic *þurhw.
Pronunciation
Preposition
thurgh
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1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story)”, in The Canterbury Tales, ,
→OCLC; republished in [
William Thynne], editor,
The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, ,
:
[
Richard Grafton for]
Iohn Reynes ,
1542,
→OCLC:
But for to speke of vertuous beautee,
Thanne was she oon the faireste under sonne,
For povreliche yfostred up was she,
No likerous lust was thurgh hir herte yronne.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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