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Definition of Marrowfats
1. marrowfat [n] - See also: marrowfat
Lexicographical Neighbors of Marrowfats
Literary usage of Marrowfats
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Noctes Ambrosianæ by John Wilson, Robert Shelton Mackenzie, James Hogg, William Maginn, John Gibson Lockhart (1866)
"... like marrowfats, or the waxen cells of the humble bee, that " big» its byke"
in the mossy greensward, or among the roots of a thorn, on which the magpie ..."
2. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1854)
"marrowfats at least might read SHAKSPEARE in his chimney-corner, ... It does not
appear to have occurred to marrowfats to congratulate himself and his ..."
3. The Secrets of Canning: A Complete Exposition of the Theory and Art of the by Ernest F. Schwaab (1890)
"Both varieties call for the same management, except that the marrowfats require
... marrowfats should be planted a little earlier than the others, ..."
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