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Definition of Navews
1. navew [n] - See also: navew
Lexicographical Neighbors of Navews
Literary usage of Navews
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Memoir of Jacques Cartier: Sieur de Limoilou, His Voyages to the St by James Phinney Baxter, Jean François de La Roque Roberval, Jean Alfonce (1906)
"We sowed seeds here of our country, as cabbages, navews, lettuce, and others,
which grew and sprung up out of the ground in eight days. ..."
2. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"... carrots, cabbages, navews," turnips, and all kinds of salad herbs—but also
fed upon as dainty dishes at the tables of delicate merchants, ..."
3. Chronicle and Romance: Froissart, Malory, Holinshed ; with Introductions by Jean Froissart, Thomas Malory, William Harrison (1910)
"... carrots, cabbages, navews," turnips, and all kinds of salad herbs—but also
fed upon as dainty dishes at the tables of delicate merchants, gentlemen, ..."
4. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"Alas, of a very good taste, which they sow and cultivate, one sort red, like
red-parsnip, another white like navews, and are ordinarily bigger then a mans ..."
5. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"Alas, of a very good taste, which they sow and cultivate, one sort red, like
red-parsnip, another white like navews, and are ordinarily bigger then a mans ..."
6. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"Alas, of a very good taste, which they sow and cultivate, one sort red, like
red-parsnip, another white like navews, and are ordinarily bigger then a mans ..."
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