alliterative

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September 28, 2010, 11:07 am Playing the Alliterative Ponies With a Funny Fellow When Pat Cooper picks his horses, he looks for repeating letters.

From New York Times • Sep. 28, 2010

In the “Comic Almanack” will be found many examples of Alliterative Designs.

From English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. by Everitt, Graham

They axid hors and armes bryght, to horsbak went thay in ffere. viii B. Alliterative combinations, one part of which is a proper name.

From Torrent of Portyngale by Unknown

“Bowed to þe hyȝ bonk þer brentest hit wern,” Alliterative Poems, ed.

From A Concise Dictionary of Middle English From A.D. 1150 to 1580 by Mayhew, A. L. (Anthony Lawson)

This seems to furnish an etymology for Clent Hills, Worcestershire—brent is the term employed in Alliterative.

From Early English Alliterative Poems in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century by Morris, Richard