ETYMOLOGY
from nose + hole
EXAMPLE
“…Whan a bodi is stinged of an Adder than shall the woūde be wasshed ther with and clowtes wet layd ther vpō I Cotton wet in the same water & put in the nose holes is good agaynst Polippus that is stynkinge flesshe in the nose…”
From: The vertuose boke of distyllacyon of the waters of all maner of herbes
By Hieronymus Brunschwig
Translated by Laurence Andrewe, 1527
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