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Definition of Lowlights
1. lowlight [n] - See also: lowlight
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lowlights
Literary usage of Lowlights
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Rhymes of Northern Bards: Being a Curious Collection of Old and New Songs by John Bell (1812)
"WE'LL all away to the lowlights, ' And there we'll see the sailors come in ;
We'll all away to the lowlights, And there we'll see the sailors come in. ..."
2. Allan's Illustrated Edition of Tyneside Songs and Readings: With Lives by Thomas & George Allan (Firm) (1891)
"WE'LL all away to the lowlights, And there we'll see the sailors come in ; We'll
all away to the lowlights, And there we'll see the sailors come in. ..."
3. Chronicles of the Canongate by Walter Scott (1827)
"Hillary's services are too necessary in the purlieus of Saint Giles's, the
lowlights of Newcastle, and such like places, where human carrion can be picked ..."
4. Chronicles of the Canongate by Walter Scott (1827)
"Hillary's services are too necessary in the purlieus of Saint Giles's, the
lowlights of Newcastle, and such like places, where human carrion can be picked ..."
5. The Principles of Leather Manufacture by H[enry] R[ichardson] Procter (1903)
"The water at the lowlights Tannery, which in dry weather was mostly obtained from
beds of what was originally sea-sand, and which consequently contained ..."
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