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Definition of Fleeced
1. a. Furnished with a fleece; as, a sheep is well fleeced.
Definition of Fleeced
1. Verb. (past of fleece) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fleeced
1. fleece [v] - See also: fleece
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fleeced
Literary usage of Fleeced
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Our Wild Indians: Thirty-three Years Personal Experience Among the Red Men by Richard Irving Dodge (1884)
"Systems of Barter — "Sold Out" — fleeced and Victimized by the "Trader" —Indian
Wants and Necessities—The Charm of Novelty— An Incident at Fort ..."
2. Serbian Folk-lore: Popular Tales by William Denton (1874)
"ONCE upon a time a hunter went to the mountains to hunt, and met there a
golden-fleeced ram. The moment he saw it he took up his rifle to shoot it; before, ..."
3. A Visit to India, China, and Japan, in the Year 1853 by Bayard Taylor (1864)
"... of Hair—A Pilgrim Shorn and fleeced—The Place of Flags—Venality of the
Brahmins—Story of the Contract for Grass—Junction of the Ganges and ..."
4. Gold Bricks of Speculation: A Study of Speculation and Its Counterfeits, and by John Hill (1904)
"... way money can be " lost "; the convenient mercantile agency; how the " faker "
is subject to blackmail, and how the innocent insist on being fleeced. ..."
5. Twenty Years Among Our Hostile Indians: Describing the Characteristics by James Lee Humfreville (1903)
"... into the Snake Tribe—Lives With a Snake Woman and Adopts the Clothing and the
Life of the Snakes—A Desperate Fight with Indians—fleeced by Gamblers—His ..."
6. The Night Side of London by James Ewing Ritchie (1857)
"bed, and wondering what can keep her lord so long at business, little knows, when
he returns home flushed and excited, that he has been ' fleeced of money ..."
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