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Definition of Andirons
1. andiron [n] - See also: andiron
Lexicographical Neighbors of Andirons
Literary usage of Andirons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Due Reverence: Antiques in the Possession of the American Philosophical Society by Murphy D. Smith, . (1992)
"17) In 1976 Mrs. Henry Goddard Leach bequeathed to the Society the famous Wistar
andirons. They are interesting for their size and unique detail, ..."
2. Due Reverence: Antiques in the Possession of the American Philosophical Society by Murphy D. Smith (1992)
"These andirons have been exhibited many times. ... King had cast such hairy
paw-feet from carved wooden models for another such pair of andirons.12 Fig. 17. ..."
3. A History of Muhlneberg County by Otto Arthur Rothert (1913)
"Notwithstanding the fact that they andirons MADE AT THE STACK IN 1840 were used
during cold weather for seventy years, they are for all practical purposes ..."
4. The Bible Word-book: A Glossary of Archaic Words and Phrases in the by William Aldis Wright, Jonathan Eastwood (1884)
"Her andirons— I had forgot them—were two winking Cupids Of silver. Shakespeare,
Cymb. II. 4. 88. Anger, vt (Ps. cvi. 32; Rom. x. 19). ..."
5. Stray Reveries by Ashbel Green Vermilye (1897)
"... needs prefatory explanation to a subject like andirons. ... We go back to the
savage, squatted in or before his tent: he has no andirons; ..."
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