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Definition of Blenchers
1. blencher [n] - See also: blencher
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blenchers
Literary usage of Blenchers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"The following passage evidently nl- ludes to it, and makes the blenchers attendants
on the sport. Which makes him overshoot all His valour should direct at, ..."
2. Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of by Chetham Society (1856)
"... or blenchers, to dip them into water, wherein they have dissolved a little
starch with smalt or Dutch azure. ..."
3. Longman's Magazine by Charles James Longman (1888)
"... or murder-grim, or outworn with grief-stricken eld; cowards are battle-blenchers;
birds of prey are fowls of ravin. ..."
4. The Stories of the Kings of Norway Called the Round World (Heimskringla) by Snorri Sturluson (1893)
"... Answered the king : " We fear not those blenchers ; in Danes there is no heart.
But what captain is behind the banners out there on the right hand ? ..."
5. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"The following passage evidently nl- ludes to it, and makes the blenchers attendants
on the sport. Which makes him overshoot all His valour should direct at, ..."
6. Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of by Chetham Society (1856)
"... or blenchers, to dip them into water, wherein they have dissolved a little
starch with smalt or Dutch azure. ..."
7. Longman's Magazine by Charles James Longman (1888)
"... or murder-grim, or outworn with grief-stricken eld; cowards are battle-blenchers;
birds of prey are fowls of ravin. ..."
8. The Stories of the Kings of Norway Called the Round World (Heimskringla) by Snorri Sturluson (1893)
"... Answered the king : " We fear not those blenchers ; in Danes there is no heart.
But what captain is behind the banners out there on the right hand ? ..."
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