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Definition of Cascabels
1. cascabel [n] - See also: cascabel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cascabels
Literary usage of Cascabels
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Modern Geography: A Description of the Empires, Kingdoms, States and by John Pinkerton, Samuel Vince, Benjamin Smith Barton (1804)
"The wives are sometimes bought very young, at the price of beads, cascabels, (or
little hawks* bells,) garments, or horses : and polygamy is common. ..."
2. Researches Into the Physical History of Mankind by James Cowles Prichard (1847)
"For this shew of grief they are paid with glass beads, brass cascabels, and
such-like baubles, which are in hish estimation among them. ..."
3. Narrative of a Journey Round the World: Comprising a Winter-passage Across by Friedrich Gerstäcker (1853)
"They broke down the wall in several places, destroyed the gun-carriages, and even
the cannons themselves so far as they could, by knocking off the cascabels ..."
4. Notes on the Natural History of the Strait of Magellan and West Coast of by Robert Oliver Cunningham (1871)
"For this show of grief they are paid with glass beads, brass cascabels, and such
like baubles, which are in high estimation among them. ..."
5. Journal of a Passage from the Pacific to the Atlantic: Crossing the Andes in by Maw, Henry Lister (1829)
"... were now no longer current in payment, I gave what remained, consisting of
some papers of fish-hooks, needles, cascabels, scissors, beads, &c. ..."
6. Columbus the Discoverer by Frederick Albion Ober (1906)
"... swimming, bringing us parrots, cotton thread in balls, and such things, which
they bartered for glass beads and cascabels. All of them go as naked as ..."
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