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Definition of Culets
1. culet [n] - See also: culet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Culets
Literary usage of Culets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Vacation Tourists and Notes of Travel in 1860 [1861, 1962-3] by Francis Galton (1861)
"In the first place, there was every appearance of bad weather—• as foretold by
the circular rainbow ; and, secondly, culets could not come with us, ..."
2. Selections from Early American Writers, 1607-1800 by William B. Cairns (1909)
"... pierced the Turke so under the culets thorow backe and body, that although he
alighted from his horse, he stood not long ere hee lost his head, ..."
3. Capt. John Smith: Of Willoughby by Alfoed, Lincolnshire; President of by John Smith, Edward Arber (1895)
"... pierced the Türke so under the culets thorow backe and body, that although he
alighted from his horse, ..."
4. The Saxons in England: A History of the English Commonwealth Till the Period by John Mitchell Kemble (1876)
"... should chuse and present the person by them chosen after the manner the other
culets did. . . .Coming away, the Bailiff told me he had a writ to ..."
5. A History of Agriculture and Prices in England: From the Year After the by James Edwin Thorold Rogers, Arthur George Liddon Rogers (1866)
"One of his function« was the collection of culets, a small annual tax paid by
all members of the University from the remotest period, in order to form a ..."
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