Definition of Arles

1. Noun. Money given by a buyer to a seller to bind a contract.

Exact synonyms: Earnest Money
Generic synonyms: Earnest

Definition of Arles

1. n. pl. An earnest; earnest money; money paid to bind a bargain.

Definition of Arles

1. money paid to bind a bargain [n]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Arles

arkan
arked
arkful
arkfuls
arking
arkite
arkites
arkose
arkoses
arkosic
arks
arkwright
arkwrights
arle
arled
arles (current term)
arling
arm'd
arm's length
arm's reach
arm-twisting
arm-twistings
arm-wrestle
arm-wrestler
arm and a leg
arm band
arm bone
arm exercise

Literary usage of Arles

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Larned History for Ready Reference, Reading and Research: The Actual by Josephus Nelson Larned, Augustus Hunt Shearer (1922)
"[arles, Jacques Alexander César (1746- i, French mathematician and physicist. See noN: Development of balloons and dirigibles: ..."

2. In Troubadour-land: A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc by Sabine Baring-Gould (1891)
"PAGAN arles. The arles race a mixture of Greek and Gaulish—The colonisation by the Romans—The type of beauty in arles—The amphitheatre— A ..."

3. Old Provence by Theodore Andrea Cook (1905)
"LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE The Pont du Gard Frontispiece A woman of arles (from a drawing by Jane E. Cook) . Title-page Carving from a Roman Tomb at arles ..."

4. Colchester by Edward Lewes Cutts (1888)
"This reading would make the three British bishops present at arles the bishops of the principal cities of the three provinces into which Roman Britain was ..."

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