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Definition of Hoidens
1. hoiden [v] - See also: hoiden
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hoidens
Literary usage of Hoidens
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lyric Forms from France: Their History and Their Use by Helen Louise Cohen (1922)
"Lady Margaret Sackville THE hoidens "Au point du premier jour, dans 1'enfance du
tout." —Antoine Ritzi. When the Morning broke before us Came the wayward ..."
2. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1892)
"These incipient fine ladies, when escaped from your surveillance, are the veriest
hoidens on the face of the earth. Would it not be better to allow a ..."
3. English Drama by Felix Emmanuel Schelling (1914)
"... to the submission of his subject, and he transforms the sweet womanly daughters
of Hey- wood's subject into the unmaidenly hoidens already mentioned. ..."
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