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Definition of Lionising
1. lionise [v] - See also: lionise
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lionising
Literary usage of Lionising
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Society by George Makepeace Towle (1870)
"... fashionable party—lionising—Society in Boston, Philadelphia, the West, the
South—American deference to ladies—Clubs— Markets—Barber "saloons"—Liveries ..."
2. Life of Robert Gray, Bishop of Cape Town and Metropolitan of Africa by H. L. Sidney Lear (1876)
"... We have been lionising hard. I have in vain laboured to make myself acquainted
with the different styles of their best painters, but conclude with the ..."
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