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nomade, n. and a.|ˈnɒmeɪd, ˈnəʊmeɪd|
[var. of prec.; in later use prob. after F. nomade.]
†1. A nomadic band. Obs. rare—1.
c1630G. Sandys Ps. lxxxiii. (1636) 136 Idumæans, who in Nomades stray, And shaggy Ismaelites, that live by prey.
2. = nomad 1.
1775Johnson West. Isl. Wks. X. 357 He differed from some of the ancient nomades. 1798W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. VI. 554 The future ruler of men now the hireling of a nomade. 1835W. Irving Tour Prairies i, The Pawnees, the Comanches, and other fierce..tribes, the nomades of the prairies. 1837Sir F. Palgrave Merch. & Friar i. (1844) 21 The Arab yielded to a fiercer nomade. 1880L. Oliphant Land of Gilead ii. 26 A long caravan of mules laden with tents and baggage, to tempt the needy nomade.
3. attrib. or adj.
a. = nomad 2 a.
1817G. S. Faber Eight Diss. (1845) II. 237 A warlike nomade horde of herdsmen and shepherds. 1851D. Wilson Preh. Ann. I. ii. i. (1863) 300 The wanderings of his nomade fathers. 1872Hardwick Trad. Lanc. 209 This outcast nomade race which wandered from forest to forest.
b. = nomad 2 b.
1819G. S. Faber Dispens. (1823) I. 108 Cain..being doomed to a nomade state of life. 1862Merivale Rom. Emp. lxv. (1865) VIII. 160 To close the sources of the perennial stream of nomade savagery. 1865W. G. Palgrave Arabia I. 31 The advantages of nomade license and the insolent lawlessness of the clans. |