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Definition of Eyasses
1. eyass [n] - See also: eyass
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eyasses
Literary usage of Eyasses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lives of the Queens of England: From the Norman Conquest by Agnes Strickland, Elisabeth Strickland (1852)
"... the spirit of Shakspeare into much indignation, and caused him to compare them
to " little eyasses."2 When Heywood, on his return from banishment, ..."
2. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1820)
"... his persons are still men; and there are surely some moments in which the
falconer might forget his hawks and his eyasses, the Doctor think not of his ..."
3. Shakspere's predecessors in the English drama by John Addington Symonds (1884)
"Shakspere thinks it worth while to run them down in ' Hamlet; ' where Rosencrantz
is made to speak of ' an aery of children, little eyasses,' who 'are now ..."
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