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safe
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"chest for keeping food or valuables," early 15c., save , from Middle French en sauf "in safety," from sauf (see safe (adj.)). Spelling with -f- first recorded 1680s, from influence of safe (adj.).
Usage examples of safe.
Here was my wife, who had secretly aided and abetted her son in his design, and been the recipient of his hopes and fears on the subject, turning to me, who had dared to utter a feeble protest or two only to be scoffed at, and summarily sat upon, asking if the game was really safe.
The secrecy surrounding his operations meant that he must keep it aboard, since only in his cabin was the money safe from awkward questions.
Memphis from New Orleans, even the narrow strip on either side swept by their cannon was safe at any point only while they were abreast it.
He remembered Aby living, Aby on Moon, blithe and beautiful, coming down the road in the safe lowlands.
Tronchin would provide could not possibly be as comfortable and as safe as mine, and I entreated her to take it, assuring her that by accepting it she would give me a last proof of her affection.
He would only feel safe if he commanded ultimate power over all of Achar, if he sat the throne itself.
I was too awestruck to know fear, too adulatory in my awe, but I knew the open area of the beach was not safe, and I hurried away from Espinal and the motionless column of blackhearts.
She might be absurdly non-streetwise and hardly safe out on her own, but affectedness and pose-striking were not among her foibles.
She found a patha well-worn path leading from the riverand followed it just out of sight, afoot, leaving Hellsbane tethered in a safe place hidden by the underbrush.
Almost as an afterthought, she opened the safe and withdrew the only existing PLACE documentation.
Walking her mare through the stockade gate, Aganippe found the rammed earth maidan nearly deserted-- only those who cared the most had stayed up to see her safe.
After another few minutes of polite inquiries about Agatine, Orlin, the four boys, the charms of Roseguard and wishes for a safe return journey, Anniyas excused herself to talk with Kanen EHevit.
And to keep safe the werewolf clans of Crimson City, the Grand Dame Alpha would do anything.
If a runner wanted to hide and develop a safe identity, pretending to be a Yale alumnus was a rotten idea, and wearing a Yale ring was a worse idea.
It was his home-from-home, his safe haven, his general amnestic, his painless admission of defeat.