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Definition of Missuses
1. missus [n] - See also: missus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Missuses
Literary usage of Missuses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1870)
"... of Old & Young missuses as well as them Old Masters of whom we ears so much.
... as pur Young missuses deserve to be exibited, for they contiually are ..."
2. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1853)
"I don't do no mor werk, but I eits in the parler <fc wraps fur Mistress and Mastur.
Weave had missuses Grandpa and uncle up in the ..."
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