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Definition of Tennies
1. low-cut sneakers [n]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tennies
Literary usage of Tennies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sir Walter Scott's Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border by Walter Scott, Thomas Finlayson Henderson (1902)
"As he gaed up the tennies bank,3 I wot he gaed wi' sorrow, Till, down in a den,
... [The tennies is the name of a farm of the Duke of Buccleuch, ..."
2. Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature by Margaret Ball (1907)
"Scott writes (beginning of fifth stanza), "As he gaed up the tennies bank" for "
As he gaed up yon high, high hill," and we find from a note of Lockhart's ..."
3. Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature by Margaret Ball (1907)
"Scott writes (beginning of fifth stanza), "As he gaed up the tennies bank" for "
As he gaed up yon high, high hill," and we find from a note of Lockhart's ..."
4. Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature by Margaret Ball (1907)
"Scott writes (beginning of fifth stanza), "As he gaed up the tennies bank" for "
As he gaed up yon high, high hill," and we find from a note of Lockhart's ..."
5. The English and Scottish Popular Ballads by Francis James Child, George Lyman Kittredge, Helen Child Sargent (1890)
"As he gaed up the tennies bank. 61'*. O come ye here to part your land, The bonnie
forest thorough. 7W. ..."
6. English and Scottish Ballads by Francis James Child (1857)
"As he gaed up the tennies bank, 1 wot he gaed wi' sorrow, Till, down in a den,
he spied nine arm'd men, ..."
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