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Definition of Preakness
1. Noun. An annual race for three-year-old horses; held at Pimlico in Baltimore, Maryland.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Preakness
Literary usage of Preakness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries by John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Martha Joanna Lamb, Henry Phelps Johnston, Nathan Gilbert Pond, William Abbatt (1879)
"WASHINGTON'S HEADQUARTERS AT Preakness During the first three weeks of July,
1780, Washington had his headquarters at Preakness, New Jersey, lodging at the ..."
2. Memoirs, Correspondence and Manuscripts of General Lafayette (1837)
"Camp at Preakness, July 4th, 1780. You know, my dear general, that I am very
anxious to see the army well clothed for this campaign ; the importance of such ..."
3. Memoirs, Correspondence and Manuscripts of General Lafayette (1837)
"Camp at Preakness, July 4th, 1780. You know, my dear general, that I am very
anxious to see the army well clothed for this campaign ; the importance of such ..."
4. The History of New Jersey: From Its Discovery by Europeans, to the Adoption by Thomas Francis Gordon (1834)
"On the NW the waving tops of the Preakness ridge are observed, extending for
several miles, indented by ponds of considerable magnitude and depth. ..."
5. Lake Passaic: An Extinct Glacial Lake by Henry Barnard Kümmel (1895)
"The Opper Preakness stage.—At a number of places, more or less well-defined
terraces are present at elevations varying from sixty- five to seventy-five feet ..."
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