nates
Americannoun
buttocks; rump.
plural noun
a technical word for thebuttocks Seebuttock
Etymology
Origin of nates
1675–85; < Latinnatēs, plural ofnatis; generally used in the plural; akin to Greeknôton the back
Example Sentences
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The redness extended rapidly downward until it covered the foot, and even the toes; but the extension upward was slight, not much above the nates, on which there was situated at the time a bed-sore.
Any condition that makes it painful to use the upper part of the lower limb and especially the group of large posterior leg muscles just below the nates is called sciatica.
Ag′nates, in the civil law, relations on the male side, in opposition to cognates, relations on the female side.
Discolourations, answering to the ribs, were observed on the thorax; many small purple spots, hard and prominent, on the back; excoriations on the nates; and purple spots, resembling incipient mortification, on the heel and toe.
She regulated the household in her earliest years, and will regulate it until she dies or somebody marries her, and what we are to do then our lares and p�nates only know.
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