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Definition of Dungarees
1. dungaree [n] - See also: dungaree
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dungarees
Literary usage of Dungarees
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Bairnsfather Case as Tried Before Mr. Justice Busby: Defence by Bruce by Bruce Bairnsfather, William A. Mutch (1920)
"... AND dungarees I HAVE nothing to say against engineering, but I feel that
engineering, if the question was put to it, might have a lot to say against me. ..."
2. A Geographical Account of Countries Round the Bay of Bengal, 1669 to 1679 by Thomas Bowrey (1905)
"Company had required 12000 Peeces dungarees...1200 Peeces is but a very ...
22 for 3rd June, 1680 has, " dungarees and Market Clouts every 16 patch pay I ..."
3. "Over There" with the Australians by R. Hugh Knyvett (1918)
"In the camp, rows of figures in blue dungarees and white hats were marching round
and round the drill-ground ..."
4. The Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia: Commercial by Edward Balfour (1885)
"The prevailing price of the ordinary 9 dungarees, 30 cubits,—that is, 15 yards
long, and 2 feet wide,—is 1 rupee 12 annas; ..."
5. Naval Hygiene by James Chambers Pryor (1918)
"They should be permitted to come in clean dungarees. The writer has seen men of
the fire-room force deterred from coming up on deck to rest because they ..."
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