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Definition of Tweezes
1. tweeze [v] - See also: tweeze
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tweezes
Literary usage of Tweezes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"Drawing a little penknife out of a pair of tweezes I then chanced to have about
me;' Boyle, Works, ii. 419 (K.) 'I have sent you by ..."
2. Memoirs of the Verney Family by Margaret Maria Williams-Hay Verney (1892)
"... Ralph writes to her that ' my wife . . . hath ventured to present you with a
pa-ire of French trimed gloves, a Fan, a paire of tweezes & an ..."
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