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Definition of Lungies
1. lungie [n] - See also: lungie
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lungies
Literary usage of Lungies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett (1816)
"About the middle of January, I was assaulted in my palanquin by a number of
petitioners, who had nearly overset it : they were the mo- lungies of the 24 ..."
2. Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High ...by William Cobbett, David Jardine by William Cobbett, David Jardine (1814)
"About the middle of" January, I Was in my palanquin by a number of peliti' who
had nearly overset it : they were the lungies of tbe 24 ..."
3. Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and by Henry Yule, Arthur Coke Burnell, William Crooke (1903)
"... Women came down together to wash, having lungies about their Wastes only. ...
lungies. made of Cotton-Yarn, the Natives would bring Elephant's Teeth. ..."
4. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1881)
"There are no shops and no banias, salt, lungies, guns, «fcc., being obtained by
barter at the larger towns in the Nur Darà. ..."
5. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1901)
"... by busily engaged in roasting, pounding and cooking the berry for the company.
There are numerous hand-looms at Nakhl, in which coloured lungies and ..."
6. Beaumont & Fletcher by Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher (1890)
"thou not shrewdly hurt ? the foul great lungies ' laid un mercifully on thee :
there's some sugar-candy for thee. Proceed ; thou shall have another bout ..."
7. The Chief Elizabethan Dramatists, Excluding Shakespeare by William Allan Neilson (1911)
"—The foul great lungies 5 laid unmercifully on thee : there 's some sugar-candy
for [ * thee. Proceed; thon ehalt have another bout with him. Cit. ..."
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