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Definition of Cauves
1. cauf [n] - See also: cauf
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cauves
Literary usage of Cauves
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1887)
"Said when the earth by the side of a grave, or any cutting, is undermined and
falls in, leaving a cave-like hollow. It cauves in as fast as I can throw it ..."
2. A Glossary of Words Used in South-west Lincolnshire: (Wapentake of Graffoe). by Robert Eden George Cole (1886)
"Common pronunciation of Calf, Calves : as " I'd been to serve tl.e cauves ; " "
She's gotten a quei; cauf ; " " My maiden's gone for a bit of a halliday ..."
3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1812)
"... the proper effect of style; though, doubtless, the impracticability of raising
a lofty arch, from want of strength in the supporters or other cauves, ..."
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