pearl – English noun declension

English noun forms of pearl

Noun: pearl
Singularpearl
Pluralpearls

Sample Sentences

  • I see thee compassed with thy kingdom's pearl. [c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene viii]:]
  • Hugh helped himself to bacon. "My dear fellow, she can think what she likes so long as she continues to grill bacon like this. Your wife is a treasure, James—a pearl amongst women; and you can tell her so with my love." [1920, Herman Cyril McNeile, chapter 1, in Bulldog Drummond:]
  • Boast not of your eyes; it is feared you have Balaam's disease, a pearl in your eye, Mammon's prestriction. [1641, John Milton, Animadversions upon The Remonstrants Defence Against Smectymnuus, Section III:]
  • clinical pearls
  • My mouth and tongue finally find her pearl. Her clitoris. [2010, Richard Knight, Simple Fantasies Can Come True, page 10:]
  • Teasing her pearl she shakes in my arms, rolling her eyes and throwing the pussy at me. [2012, Danie Baly, Born with a Curse: Secret Fantasies:]
  • Errol. Pearl three Escutcheons Ruby. / Elgin. Topaz a Saltier and Chief Ruby, on a Canton Pearl a Lyon Rampant Saphyr, which last is their paternal Coat; and the Field Topaz, and Saltier, and Chief Ruby, was the Arms of King Robert the Bruce, they altering the Field from Pearl (as he bore it) to Topaz. [1720, Francis Nichols, Rudiments of Honour, page 296:]
  • The Field is Ruby, on a Bend Topaz, three Martlets Diamond. The Armes of the most Noble and Puissant Lord, Edward Brabazon, Earl of Meath, and Baron of Atherdee in the Kingdom of Ireland. His Lordship's Atchievements are Quarterly of sixteen Coats. 1. Brabazon, as above. 2. Diamond, on a Chevron between three Pickaxes Pearl, as many Mullets Ruby, by the Name of Mosley. 3. Saphire, ten Bezants, 4, 3, 2, 1, by the Bisset. 4. Pearl, on a Bend Diamond, nine Annulets conjoined in three Links Topaz. [1726, John Guillim, The Banner Display'd; Or, an Abridgment of Guillim, page 504:]
  • (1) Pearl, a Cross, Ruby, with the Effigies of our Saviour thereon, Topaz, born in Memory of one of the Family's fighting against the Turks. [1754, John Lodge, The Peerage of Ireland; Or, a Genealogical History of the ..., page 71:]
  • There is gold, and multitude of pearles: but a precious vessel the lips of knowledge. [1635, Douay Rheims Bible, Proverbs 20:15]

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English perle, from Old French perle of uncertain etymology. Probably via unattested Medieval Latin *pernula, from Latin perna (“haunch; a marine bivalve shaped like a leg of lamb”) but also derived from Medieval Latin perla, from Latin perula (“little bag”). Its typographic use follows the name given by Jean Jannon to the type used in his miniature editions of Vergil, Horace, & the New Testament in the 1620s, which were the smallest printed works to his time. Its surfing use derives from the supposed resemblance to pearl diving. See: Middle English Nouns 'perle', Middle English Nouns 'perle', Latin Nouns 'perna', Latin Nouns 'perula'.

Verbs referencing "pearl"

Dutch Nouns parel.