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Definition of Gnomes
1. gnome [n] - See also: gnome
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gnomes
Literary usage of Gnomes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Gnomic Poetry in Anglo-Saxon by Blanche Colton Williams (1914)
"DETAILED CONSIDERATION OF EXETER gnomes AND COTTON gnomes I EXETER gnomes Beginning
slightly below the middle of folio 88b, the gnomic poems of the Exeter ..."
2. Old English Poems: Translated Into the Original Meter, Together with Short by Cosette Faust Newton, Stith Thompson (1918)
"There are two sets of gnomes or proverbs in Old English. The Exeter collection,
from which these are taken, consists of three groups. ..."
3. English Literature: An Illustrated Record by Richard Garnett, Edmund Gosse (1905)
"... adding a "machinery" of gnomes and sylphs, with other adornments. In this form
he published it, vastly improved, in 1714. Meanwhile, he had contributed ..."
4. Art and Art Industries in Japan by Rutherford Alcock (1878)
"They seem to have •wonderful dreams and visions of another world, and possess a
whole mythology of gnomes and spirits, showing an inexhaustible vein of ..."
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