2. Noun. (informal) police officers ¹
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Definition of Finest
1. fine [adj] - See also: fine
Lexicographical Neighbors of Finest
Literary usage of Finest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"1470), though comparatively small, is the finest ¡n design and mosf elegant of
its type in Ef>pt- Here the central court is covered by a cupola lantern (fig ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Seeing a proof of this Raphael exclaimed: "It is the finest I have ever seen ...
His best are: "Adam and Eve" (probably the finest/; "Virgin with the Bare ..."
3. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"Some of them are of most extraordinary beauty ; perhaps the finest of all is a
cylix from a is a drawing, chiefly in outline, representing Aphrodite seated ..."
4. Northern Germany: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1884)
"One of the finest apartments in the Schloss is the ^Convent Remter (PI. d), or
assembly-hall, ... are among the finest points in the beautiful environs. ..."
5. The Vicar of Wakefield: Der Landprediger Von Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith (1857)
""In my opinion," cried my son, "the finest strokes in that description are much
below those in the Acis and ..."
6. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1903)
"... 1903. t The numbers of the figures differ from the original because many of
the figures are omitted here. even if made of the finest wire, ..."
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