Etymology

sans nombre

Today it means: Repeated (as a charge like a billet or a division like paly) many times, covering the field with no set number (of the thing). Full definition →

French sans nombre
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The story

  1. French · borrowed fromsans nombre“numberless”
  2. English todaysans nombre

From French sans nombre (“numberless”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.