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Definition of Drisheens
1. drisheen [n] - See also: drisheen
Lexicographical Neighbors of Drisheens
Literary usage of Drisheens
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1860)
"drisheens were formerly quite a fashionable dish, ... It was famous for its
oysters, beefsteaks and drisheens,” &c. ..."
2. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (1916)
"Mr Dedalus had ordered drisheens for breakfast and during the meal he cross-examined
the waiter for local news. For the most part they spoke at cross ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1828)
"... the region of frolic and spree, Where salmon, drisheens, and beef-stakes are
cook'd best, Och ! ..."
4. An Explanatory and Pronouncing Dictionary of the Noted Names of Fiction by William Adolphus Wheeler (1872)
"A name popularly given to the city of Cork, from a dish peculiar to the place,
and formerly a very fashionable one among the inhabitants. drisheens are made ..."
5. The Dublin Journal of Medical Science (1886)
"A similar food, known as drisheens, obtained as the beast is being slaughtered,
is to the present a favourite in Cork. The Royal Irish Academy and the ..."
6. Noctes Ambrosianæ by John Wilson, Robert Shelton Mackenzie, James Hogg, William Maginn, John Gibson Lockhart (1866)
"... the ragion of frolic and spree, Where salmon, drisheens, and beef-steaks are
cook'd best, ..."
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