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Definition of Hand wear

1. Noun. Clothing for the hands.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hand Wear

Literary usage of Hand wear

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Monumental Brasses of Gloucestershire by Cecil Tudor Davis (1899)
"Of the wives, the two on the husband's left hand wear that peculiar shape of the horned head-dress, ... The two wives on the husband's right hand wear the ..."

2. 1795-1895. One Hundred Years of American Commerce ...: A History of American by Chauncey Mitchell Depew (1895)
"Sheepskin is now so dressed as to make it durable in all weathers, and the equine, bovine, and porcine hides are all valuable for hand-wear purposes of the ..."

3. The Year Book of Daily Recreation and Information: Concerning Remarkable Men by William Hone (1832)
"Shall make more precious, when you shall it Compare it to the ring which your fair hand wear: So my Love'« nature you »hall understand. ..."

4. The Manners & Customs of the Modern Egyptians by Edward William Lane (1908)
"... than the latter—no turban, nor even drawers, nor shoes, but only the blue or brown shirt, or merely a few rags ; while many, on the other hand, wear a ..."

5. An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians by Edward William Lane (1871)
"... than the latter—no turban, nor eyen drawers, nor shoes, but only the blue or brown shirt, or merely a few rags; while many, on the other hand, wear a ..."

6. The History of Mankind by Friedrich Ratzel (1898)
"Armenian and Georgian women, on the other hand, wear long clothes. White, which men avoid, is preferred by women ; and they wear red caps, which the men ..."

7. Transactions of the Third International Congress for the History of Religions by Percy Stafford Allen, John de Monins Johnson (1908)
"Women, on the other hand, wear beads. Many such beads come out of the oldest British and other women's graves. Italian women at the present time wear a ..."

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