Note 182 — III
Reading edition
[‘Eaves’ (old English efes) from which an imaginary singular ‘eave’ has sometimes been evolved, as when Tennyson speaks of a ‘cottage-eave’ (In Memoriam, civ.), and Cotgrave of ‘an house-eave’.]
Reading edition
[‘Eaves’ (old English efes) from which an imaginary singular ‘eave’ has sometimes been evolved, as when Tennyson speaks of a ‘cottage-eave’ (In Memoriam, civ.), and Cotgrave of ‘an house-eave’.]