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curtal
[kur-tl]
adjective
Archaic.wearing a short frock.
a curtal friar.
Obsolete.brief; curtailed.
noun
a 16th-century bassoon.
Obsolete.an animal with a docked tail.
curtal
/ ˈɜːə /
adjective
cut short
(of friars) wearing a short frock
noun
an animal whose tail has been docked
something that is cut short
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of curtal1
Example Sentences
Here is a thong indeed, by the mass, though ich speak it; Tom Tankard's great bald curtal, I think, could not break it!
Now I may go in and out as I will, being a curtal friar and not now remembered in these parts.
One of the best arrows under his belt To the friar he let fly: The curtal friar with his steel buckler Did put that arrow by.
I with ‘gallant curtal axe,’ dressed as a youth.
Hope is a curtal dog in some affairs: II.
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