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Definition of Fiddlers
1. fiddler [n] - See also: fiddler
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fiddlers
Literary usage of Fiddlers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1896)
"... THE SEVEN fiddlers A BLUE robe on their shoulder, And an ivory bow in hand,
Seven fiddlers came with their fiddles A-fiddling through the land, ..."
2. Popular British Ballads, Ancient and Modern by Reginald Brimley Johnson (1894)
"The Seven fiddlers ... Then the fiddlers seized their fiddles, And sang to their
fiddles a song: “We are coming, coming, oh brothers, To the home we have ..."
3. The Chinese Repository edited by Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Samuel Wells Willaims (1836)
"Two blind fiddlers attracted my notice this afternoon. They were middle-aged and
stout looking men, but utterly unable to see. ..."
4. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S.: Secretary to the by Samuel Pepys, Richard Griffin Braybrooke (1855)
"This evening come Betty Turner and the two Mercers, and W. Batelier, and they
had fiddlers, and danced, and kept a quarter,1 which pleased me, ..."
5. Woman: In All Ages and in All Countries by Edward Bagby Pollard, Mitchell Carroll, Alfred Brittain, Pierce Butler, John Robert Effinger, Hugo Paul Thieme, Hermann Schoenfeld, Bartlett Burleigh James, John Ruse Larus (1908)
"... and the lover in formal and open fashion went to pay his addresses to his
lady-love, he sallied forth in the evening, accompanied by a band of fiddlers, ..."
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