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Definition of Grandaunts
1. grandaunt [n] - See also: grandaunt
Lexicographical Neighbors of Grandaunts
Literary usage of Grandaunts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1902)
"Your grandmother or grandaunts took you there, and said the pictures were admirable.
You saw " the Woodman " in worsted, with his axe and dog, ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1866)
"... for example, which stood unchanged as it had been in the days of his grandaunts,
the good old ladies who had bequeathed the Firs to Mr. Ashburton. ..."
3. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1866)
"... his grandaunts, had died very soon after he was born, or, no doubt, he would
have been placed in their guardianship; as it was, he was consigned to his ..."
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