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Definition of Lootings
1. looting [n] - See also: looting
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lootings
Literary usage of Lootings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Crime Or Custom?: Violence Against Women in Pakistan by Samya Burney, Human Rights Watch (Organization, Human Rights Watch (Organization) (1999)
"lootings and burnings Most refugees arrived in the Cote d'lvoire with only the
clothes they were wearing. They said the soldiers had come into their towns ..."
2. Minor Poets of the Caroline Period by George Saintsbury (1906)
"... and, prince-like, she Thank'd them with nods: her high thoughts still aspire
1520 And their low lootings lift them a step higher. ..."
3. The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by Herbert George Wells (1922)
"Given that, the casual shootings and lootings, the wanton destruction of property,
the plundering of inns and of food and drink shops by hungry and weary ..."
4. The Alhambra by Washington Irving (1851)
"Here he remained, counting the quarters of hours as they were sounded on the bell
of the watchtower, and listening to the dreary lootings of owls, ..."
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