Noun: dorse
| Singular | dorse |
| Plural | dorses |
Sample Sentences
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books, all richly bound, with gilt dorses [1691, Anthony Wood, Athenæ Oxonienses:]
Nouns inflected like dorse
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Compare Latin dorsum (“the back”). See: Latin Nouns '
dorsum'.