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Definition of 'Amyas'English
Proper noun
( en-proper noun)
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* : IV:viii:59:
- The morrow next about the wanted howre, / The Dwarfe cald at the doore of Amyas , / To come forthwith unto his Ladies bowre.
* 1855 (Charles Kingsley), Westward Ho! , Macmillan and Co. (1871), page 17:
- Because there was fellow-feeling of old in merry England, in county and in town; and these are Devon men, and men of Bideford, whose names are Amyas Leigh of Burrough, John Staveley, Michael Heard, and Jonas Marshall of Bideford, and Thomas Braund of Clovelly: and they, the first of all English mariners, have sailed round the world with Francis Drake, and are come hither to give God thanks.
* 1942 (Agatha Christie), Five Little Pigs , HarperCollins (1994), ISBN 0006163726, page 39:
- She was an admirer of Kingsley. That's why she called her son Amyas . His father scoffed at the name - but he gave in.
Usage notes
* Rare outside fiction today.
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