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Definition of Liripoops
1. liripoop [n] - See also: liripoop
Lexicographical Neighbors of Liripoops
Literary usage of Liripoops
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1880)
"Cfr. liripoops in Hal. List. A stripe or streak. 'A black bull with a brown list
along his back.'—Modern Husbandman, TTT. i. 94. Live keepers. ..."
2. A Select Collection of Old English Plays by Robert Dodsley, William Carew Hazlitt (1874)
"Thou art like a false knave now, and evermore was. 1 [A word of somewhat uncertain
meaning and of obscure origin. See Halliwell v. liripoops. ..."
3. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1850)
"liripoops. An appendage to the ancient hood, consisting of long tails or tippets,
passing round the neck, and hanging down before reaching to the feet, ..."
4. The Dramatic Works of Shackerley Marmion by Shackerley Marmion (1875)
"I warrant you, sir, my mistress and I Have practised our liripoops together. Agu.
Thou must insinuate strange things into her, Both of her virtue and ..."
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