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Definition of Macrons
1. macron [n] - See also: macron
Lexicographical Neighbors of Macrons
Literary usage of Macrons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The history of Greece, continued to the death of Alexander the great by R.A by William Mitford, Richard Alfred Davenport (1835)
"for the way forward, through the country of the macrons, and in the evening took
his leave. Next day a circumstance occurred, in another manner indicating ..."
2. Letters of Certain Jews to Monsieur Voltaire: Containing an Apology for by Antoine Guénée (1848)
"You just now mentioned the Colchi, the Syrians of Palestine, the Syrians of
Thermodon, and their neighbors the macrons. Do you affirm, Sir, that all these ..."
3. Studies in the English Mystery Plays by Charles Davidson (1892)
"2 In the first line, the macrons (— ) should each be read as double macrons (=),
and another one should be inserted just before the ..."
4. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1902)
"The osteological characters which separate it from macrons are quite insignificant.
Mr. Parsons mentions a wormian bone, ..."
5. The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature: Containing an Account of by William Thomas Lowndes (1861)
"macrons, 1839. This was first published at the end of the Epicurean of this date ;
but was also sold with a separate title. ..."
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