We drove back to the office with some concern on my part at the prospect of solarge a case. Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke.
1917,Michigan Film Review, page347:
Hal Smith, manager of the Ferry Field theatre, Detroit, one of thelargest and prettiest outskirt houses in town, played Metro's "Revelation" for three days last week
1946, Joseph Augustine Cushman,The larger fossil Foraminifera of the Panama Canal Zone:
Test large, cylindrical, early portion closely coiled and always completely involute, later andlarger portion uncoiled[…]
2018 July 19, Thom Patterson, “Stats reveal how many Americans volunteer and where”, inCNN[1]:
Thelargest age group for volunteers was 35-44, the CNCS survey said, and volunteers were most likely to be parents with children under 18.
(especially clothing, food or drink) That is large(the manufactured size).
1667,John Milton, “Book V”, inParadise Lost.[…], London:[…] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker[…];[a]nd by Robert Boulter[…];[a]nd Matthias Walker,[…],→OCLC; republished asParadise Lost in Ten Books:[…], London: Basil Montagu Pickering[…],1873,→OCLC:
We have yetlarge day.
1895, Margaret Naomi MacArthur,Kindergarten Review[2], Finger Play, page75:
He prefers teachers withlarge experience, but often has positions for beginners who have had a thorough preparation.
And where hit please yow to saye that I haue holden my lady youre Quene yeres and wynters / vnto that I shal euer make alarge ansuer "And where it please you to say that I have holden my lady your queen years and winters, unto that I shall ever make alarge answer"
1711,Henry Felton,Dissertation on Reading the Classics:
I might be verylarge upon the importance and advantages of education.
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Getting a car tricked out like that will cost you 50large.
1991, Stephen King,Needful Things:
"We'll call you anything we want," Dave said. "You owe us eighty-fivelarge, Ace, and what we've got for collateral on that money so far is a shitload of Arm & Hammer baking soda worth about a buck-fifty. We'll call you Hubert J. Motherfucker if we want to."
Inherited fromOld Frenchlarge, fromLatinlargus,larga,largum(“abundant, plentiful, copious, large, much”). The feminine is inherited and even generalised for both genders, but for the old masculine, Latinlargum (the masculine and neuter accusative) developed into Old Frenchlarc, which was discarded.
