cruels

• crewels

Corrupted from French écrouelles (“scrofula”). Spelling influenced by cruel.

cruels pl (plural only)

1. (obsolete) swelling in the lymph glands of neck, caused by scrofula

• “cruels”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• surcle, ulcers

cruels

1. plural of cruel

• IPA^(key): /kʁy.ɛl/

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• Homophones: cruel, cruelle, cruelles

cruels

1. masculine plural of cruel

• reculs