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Definition of Poncy
1. effeminate [adj PONCIER, PONCIEST]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Poncy
Literary usage of Poncy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Nova-Scotia, Or Acadie by Beamish Murdoch (1866)
"Early in the autumn Mascarene received a letter from St. poncy, dated from Louisbourg,
... St. poncy having come back, wrote openly from Chignecto, ..."
2. Memoirs of Remarkable Misers by Cyrus Redding (1863)
"poncy—Thomas Cooke—Rev. Mr. Jones—St. Pierre and the Creoles—The Exeter ostler.
A FARMER-GENERAL of France, named Foscue, resident in Languedoc in 1762, ..."
3. George Sand: Some Aspects of Her Life and Writings by René Doumic (1910)
"poncy was not the only working-man poet. Other trades produced their poets too.
The first poem in Marines is addressed to Durand, a poet carpenter, ..."
4. Selections from the Public Documents of the Province of Nova Scotia: Pub by Thomas B. Akins, Benjamin Curren (1869)
"All which being considered, it was the opinion of the Board, that Mr. St poncy
should have orders sent him immediately to depart this His Majesty's Province ..."
5. Quebec, Past and Present: A History of Quebec, 1608-1876 by James MacPherson Le Moine (1876)
"Miss Emilie poncy, sisler of Miss poncy. The Misses poncy had for a number of
years kept a respectable boarding-house in the Lower- Town Mr. McKenzie, ..."
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