Lexicographical Neighbors of Grimacers
Literary usage of Grimacers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1870)
"... and instead of such finished artists as Favart and Delaunay we shall have
shriekers and grimacers. Things have not yet arrived at so bad a pass as this; ..."
2. The Gentleman's Magazine (1870)
"... tumult on the neighbouring platforms, seeing themselves ruined by the Grinning
Man, were despairing, yet dazzled. All the grimacers, all the clowns, ..."
3. Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the by P. L. Jacob (1876)
"Its humblest practitioners were the mimics or grimacers, in many-coloured garments,
and brazen-faced mountebanks, who provoked laughter at the expense of ..."
4. Personal Sketches of His Own Times by Jonah Barrington (1869)
"imitate Irish phraseology made by English dramatic mimics and grimacers. Here I
am quite prepared for the most* severe criticism. ..."
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