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Definition of Sheeniest
1. sheeny [adj] - See also: sheeny
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sheeniest
Literary usage of Sheeniest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Yale Literary Magazine by Lyman Hotchkiss Bagg, Yale University (1871)
"Sundry smoking-caps and dressing-gowns and slippers, made of the sheeniest stuffs
and covered with the most bewildering designs in braid and embroidery, ..."
2. Poetica Erotica: A Collection of Rare and Curious Amatory Verse by Thomas Robert Smith (1921)
"... Girt with his glances 'scymitar which seemed athirst for blood, And clad in
mail of dusky curls that showest the sheeniest shine, And to him like a bird ..."
3. Belgravia by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1867)
"How lovely she appeared that night, In sheeniest of gauzy dresses, With tangled
wreath of snowdrops white All twining midst her golden tresses ! ..."
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