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Definition of Bodkins
1. bodkin [n] - See also: bodkin
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bodkins
Literary usage of Bodkins
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Vital Records of Marblehead, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 by Joseph Warren Chapman (1904)
"bodkins, Thomas, and Sarah Rhodes, Feb. 13, 1728-9. c. R. 3. BOGEE, Hannah, and
William Bowen, Jan. 22, 1804.» BOGIA, James, and Mrs. Deborah Hammond, Dec. ..."
2. Archaeologia Cambrensis by Cambrian Archaeological Association, Thomas Rowland Powel, Donald Moore (1852)
"143 and 144, exhibit ancient implements of bone, such as a dagger, pins, bodkins,
&c.; and others are Bronze Period ; III.—The Teutonic, or Iron Period; ..."
3. Costume in England: A History of Dress to the End of the Eighteenth Century by Frederick William Fairholt, Harold Arthur Lee-Dillon Dillon (1885)
"Silver bodkins for your hair Bobs, which maidens love to wear. ... bodkins for
the hair are mentioned in Dekker; and Bella- front, in " The Honest Whore," ..."
4. A Select Collection of Old Plays: In Twelve Volumes ; with Additional Notes by Isaac Reed, Robert Dodsley, Octavius Gilchrist, John Payne Collier (1825)
"... 1 durst not venture Into a tailor's shop, for fear of bodkins i". ...
With bodkins was Caesar Julius ..."
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