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tois
tois
French
Etymology
A corruption of trois (“three”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [twa]
Numeral
tois
- An aphasic placeholder for any number, the precise number indicated otherwise.
- For usage examples of this term, see Citations:tois.
Middle English
Noun
tois
- (of an animal) toes (digits of the foot)
- ante 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales (Cambridge Univ. Lib. Gg. 4. 27), lines B4,521–2:
- This Chauntecleer stood hye vp-on hise tois // Strechynge his neke & held his eyen clos
- This Chanticleer stood high upon his toes // Stretching his neck and held his eyne close
- This Chauntecleer stood hye vp-on hise tois // Strechynge his neke & held his eyen clos
- ante 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales (Cambridge Univ. Lib. Gg. 4. 27), lines B4,521–2: