Lexicographical Neighbors of Puzels
Literary usage of Puzels
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Shakespeare in Music: A Collation of the Chief Musical Allusions in the by Louis Charles Elson (1901)
"Well, sir, after these a lively Morris dance according to the ancient manner;
six dancers, Maid Marian, and the Fool. Then three pretty puzels' as bright as ..."
2. Shakespeare and His Times: Including the Biography of the Poet; Criticism on by Nathan Drake (1817)
"Then three pretty puzels, (maids or damsels from pucelle) as bright as a breast
of bacon, of a thirty year old a piece, that carried three special ..."
3. A Glossary to the Works of William Shakespeare by Alexander Dyce (1902)
"Laneham [in his Letter, &c], speaking of 'three pretty puzels' in a morris-dance,
says they were ' az bright az a breast of bacon! that is, bacon hung in ..."
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