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Definition of Aggry
1. a. Applied to a kind of variegated glass beads of ancient manufacture; as, aggry beads are found in Ashantee and Fantee in Africa.
Definition of Aggry
1. Adjective. Applied to a kind of variegated glass beads of ancient manufacture. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Aggry
1. describing specific glass beads [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aggry
Literary usage of Aggry
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Man by Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (1905)
"I have never yet been able to get a satisfactory answer to the enquiry, " What
is an aggry bead ? " am told that it must show obvious signs of age, ..."
2. A History of the Gold Coast of West Africa by Alfred Burdon Ellis (1893)
"their origin, " are blue, yellow, green, or a dull red ; the variegated consist
of every colour and shade. . . . The variegated strata of the aggry beads ..."
3. Story of Government: From Savagery to Civilization edited by Henry Austin (1893)
"The Egyptians or Phoenicians might have sold their goods to the Berbers, and by
them the aggry beads, among other manufactures of these ingenious dwellers ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1819)
"He wore a fillet of aggry beads about his temples, and had on a necklace of gold
cock-spur shells strung by their largest ends, and over his right shoulder ..."
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