2. Verb. (third-person singular of fountain) ¹
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Definition of Fountains
1. fountain [v] - See also: fountain
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fountains
Literary usage of Fountains
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Picturesque History of Yorkshire: Being an Account of the History by Joseph Smith Fletcher (1900)
"Fountains Abbey, as it is nowadays, is indeed a model of what the model show-place
... Fountains Abbey lies about four miles to the south-west of Ripon, ..."
2. Haydn's Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information Relating to All Ages by Joseph Haydn (1889)
"Fountains. Thß fountain of Hero of Alexandria was invented about 150 Bc Among
the remarkable fountains at Rome are the Fontana di Trevi, constructed for ..."
3. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"Fountains are of two principal kinds : (1) those which öfter a basin or several
basins ... Of ( 1 ) are the numerous fountains in the open squares of Italy, ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General (1890)
"The aqueducts supplied the bathi and the public fountains, from which hut all
the populace, except such as could afford to pay for a separate pipe to their ..."
5. Field Book of Birds of the Southwestern United States by Roger Tory Peterson, Gilbert Haven Trafton, Luther E. Wyman, Elizabeth F. Burnell (1916)
"CHAPTER XXI Fountains AND SHRUBS FOR THE BIRDS Fountains Essentials of fountains.
... Fountains may be raised on pedestals as a protection from cats, ..."
6. The Gentleman's Magazine (1864)
"Memorials of Fountains Abbey. most illustrious of the mediaeval saints for its
... The founder of Waverley Abbey had noble imitators—Furness, Fountains, ..."
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