Yore vs Yure - What's the difference?
yore | yure |
(poetic) time long past
(obsolete) In time long past; long ago.
* Spenser
* {{quote-book, year=1891, author=Kate Sanborn, title=Adopting An Abandoned Farm, chapter=, edition=
, passage=I've heard of yure old lot. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1919, author=Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews, title=Joy in the Morning, chapter=, edition=
, passage=But as soone as you can come to yure loving own girl--ROBINA." }}
(Yorkshire, Lancashire) hair
* {{quote-book, year=1862, author=Edwin Waugh, title=Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Aw know'd him when his yure stickt out at top ov his hat; and his shurt would ha' hanged eawt beheend, too,--like a Wigan lantron,--iv he'd had a shurt. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1898, author=John Hartley, title=Yorkshire Lyrics, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Her skin wor all a deep blue black, / Her yure , a dark braan red. }}
As nouns the difference between yore and yure
is that yore is time long past while yure is hair.As an adverb yore
is in time long past; long ago.As a determiner yure is
eye dialect of lang=en.yore
English
Noun
(-)- This word comes from the days of yore .
Usage notes
A ; not used outside the phrase (of yore), especially the idiom days of yore.Adverb
(-)- Which though he hath polluted oft and yore , / Yet I to them for judgment just do fly.
Anagrams
*yure
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