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Definition of Pillions
1. pillion [n] - See also: pillion
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pillions
Literary usage of Pillions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Historical Records of New South Wales by Frank Murcott Bladen (1892)
"They should be from one to five pillions ; about six hundred pots from one to
three gallons, and four hundred of from three to five gallons will bo ..."
2. Commemoration of the Ordination of John Milton Whiton to the Ministry of the ...Clergy (1908)
"The men who rode up this hill that day came on horseback; the women, if not on
horseback, behind them on pillions, just as the young pastor's bride three ..."
3. The North American Review by Making of America Project, Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1824)
"These consist of some eight or ten rugs, and pillions of skins, sometimes
beautifully colored, which form the furniture of their horses. ..."
4. The Gentleman's Magazine (1788)
"... relations produce your manners, characterise your actors, and give motion to
your pillions, foine of which arc ..."
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