moeble
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Middle English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Old French moeble, mueble (“movable”), from Latin mōbilis.
Noun
[edit]moeble (plural moebles)
- movable wealth or treasure
- (in the plural) movable goods, personal possessions
- c. 1387, Thomas Usk, chapter VIII, in The Testament of Love Book I:
- For that she is so worthye thou shuldest not clymbe so hygh, for thy moebles and thyne estate arne voyded.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Descendants
[edit]- English: (obsolete) moble
Further reading
[edit]- “moeble, n..”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.