sara Proper noun
( en proper noun)
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- Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.
*1850 (Dinah Craik), Olive , Chapman and Hall, page 151:
- Olive learnt that her young beauty's name, so far from being anything so fine as Maddalena, was plain Sarah — or Sara , as its owner took care to explain. Olive was rather disappointed - but she thought of Coleridge's ladye love; consoled herself, and tried to console the young lady, with repeating
*::My pensive Sara ! thy soft cheek reclined, &c.
*:At which Miss Sara Derwent laughed, and asked who wrote that very pretty poetry?
* 2008 , The Northern Clemency , Harpercollins, ISBN 9780007174799, page 175
- 'I wish I was called Sara ,' she said out loud.
- 'Sarah?' her mother said. 'Why the heck is being called Sarah better than being called Tracy?'
- 'Not Sarah, Sara ,' Tracy said. 'There's no h , you say Saaara.'
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sally English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) saly, from (etyl) . More at (l).
Noun
(sallies)
A willow
Any tree that looks like a willow
An object made from the above trees' wood
Derived terms
* sally rod
Etymology 2
From (etyl) saillie, from sailli, the past participle of the verb saillir 'to leap forth', itself from (etyl) salire 'to leap'
Noun
( sallies)
A sortie of troops from a besieged place against an enemy.
A sudden rushing forth.
(figuratively) A witty statement or quip, usually at the expense of one's interlocutor.
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, date=April 26
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, title=Film: Reviews: The Pirates! Band Of Misfits :
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An excursion or side trip.
* John Locke
- Everyone shall know a country better that makes often sallies into it, and traverses it up and down, than he that goes still round in the same track.
A tufted woollen part of a bellrope, used to provide grip when ringing a bell.
See also
* sally port
Verb
( en-verb)
To make a sudden attack on an enemy from a defended position.
- The troops sallied in desperation.
To set out on an excursion; venture; depart (often followed by "forth.")
- As she sallied forth from her boudoir, you would never have guessed how quickly she could strip for action. -William Manchester
To venture off the beaten path.
Etymology 3
From salvation in Salvation Army, from (etyl) salvatio
Noun
(sallies)
(New Zealand, slang) A member of the Salvation Army.
Synonyms
* Salvo
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