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Definition of Ring-around-a-rosy
1. Noun. A children's game in which the players dance around in a circle and at a given signal all squat.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ring-around-a-rosy
Literary usage of Ring-around-a-rosy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Second Reading-book by Eben Harlow Davis (1889)
"ring-around-a-rosy. As mamma finished telling her story, Ruth came to spend the
afternoon. She had something in her hand which she had picked out of the ..."
2. The Playtime Primer by Catherine Turner Bryce (1915)
"Ring around a rosy, Pocket full of posy, Lassies, lassies, All fall down.
Ring around a rosy, Pocket full of posy, Laddies, laddies, All fall down. ..."
3. The ... [first-fourth] Reading-book by Eben Harlow Davis (1889)
"ring-around-a-rosy. As mamma finished telling her story, Ruth came to spend the
afternoon. She had something in her hand which she had picked out of the ..."
4. Pacific Educational Journal by California Dept. of Public Instruction (1895)
"When little people take hold of hands and play "ring-around-a-rosy," they simply
express that which becomes a symphony when guided by education. ..."
5. Literary News by L. Pylodet, Augusta Harriet (Garrigue) Leypoldt (1885)
"... for her "Seven Little Maids," which proved so popular last season, in Ring-
Around a Rosy, containing pictures of twelve little ..."
6. Play in Education by Joseph Lee (1915)
"I remember I watched that wonderful game, Ring-around-a-Rosy, for several years
to see what it was. And then I found it wasn't anything. ..."
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