Lexicographical Neighbors of Clatches
Literary usage of Clatches
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Hawick Tradition of 1514: The Town's Common Flag and Seal by R. S. Craig, Adam Laing (1898)
"... that no bakes should be made in Winnington Moss ; the Deponent has cast peats
in that moss since that time and made clatches without any challenge, ..."
2. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1895)
"Coffee-clatches, where the members dress themselves with aprons, etc., and knit,
gossip and crochet; balls, where men adopt the ladies' evening iln-.ss. are ..."
3. Thomas Carlyle: A History of His Life in London, 1834-1881 by James Anthony Froude (1884)
"We were glad to get to the inn, by the worst and slowest of clatches, and there
procure some chack of dinner. Poor M had engaged me the ' quietest rooms in ..."
4. Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society by American Antiquarian Society (1902)
"Now we have old maid clubs and clatches, female impersonations sometimes even in
falsetto! very clever mimicries, every item of woman's ways, handkerchief, ..."
5. Developing a Law Enforcement Stress Program for Officers and Their Families by Peter Finn, Julie E. Tomz (1998)
"They label these support groups as 'hen parties', 'coffee-clatches'. And as long
as spouse support groups are willing to serve cookies at police department ..."
6. The Commentaries, Or Reports of Edmund Plowden: ... Containing Divers Cases by Edmund Plowden (1816)
"... Will and Testament in Writing, and by his same Will bequeathed and devised
the aforesaid 1O Acres of Land, with the Appurtenances, called clatches-farm, ..."
7. The American Decisions: Containing All the Cases of General Value and by John Proffatt, Abraham Clark Freeman (1886)
"clatches, cited in Higham v. Baker, supra. In its essential properties, therefore,
Shelley's Case is the case before us; for could there be an implication ..."
8. Fragments of voyages and travels by Basil Hall (1831)
"... had kept him thus long out of our clatches, was putting in practice a manoeuvre
we could not imitate. He thrust out his sweeps, as they are called, ..."
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