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Definition of Dourer
1. dour [adj] - See also: dour
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dourer
Literary usage of Dourer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1827)
"The auld man gets dourer and dourer ilka day, and the young ane dafter and daft-
er—sae ye maun just send me all' the country to some decent service, ..."
2. An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, James Edwin Thorold Rogers (1869)
"The work of the former must, upon that account, generally have been dourer than
that of the latter. The Hungarian mines, it is remarked by M. Montesquieu,2 ..."
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