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Definition of Birthdays
1. birthday [n] - See also: birthday
Lexicographical Neighbors of Birthdays
Literary usage of Birthdays
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Things Chinese: Or, Notes Connected with China by James Dyer Ball (1904)
"On the birthdays it is called pie show; and on these birthdays, ... When grown-up,
the children give a wine-party to their parents on their birthdays, ..."
2. Social life of the Chinese: With Some Account of Their Religious by Justus Doolittle (1866)
"Celebrations of birthdays: Mandarins celebrate the Birthday of the Emperor and
Empress.—Mandarins, after arriving at fifty Years, celebrate their birthdays. ..."
3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1872)
"OUR birthdays. BY MRS. ... And in our wisdom self-content, Proclaim how strata
reft and rent Are birthdays stamped in stone. And,—busied tracing back the ..."
4. Origines Ecclesiasticæ: Or, The Antiquities of the Christian Church, and by Joseph Bingham, Richard Bingham (1840)
"As also the Celebration of all Festivals, birthdays, and Marriages, as unsuitable
to the present Occasion. For the same reason they forbade the celebration ..."
5. Stirring Times: Or, Records from Jerusalem Consular Chronicles of 1853 to 1856 by James Finn (1878)
"ROYAL birthdays AND NATIONAL FLAGS. Royal birthdays—Salute of cannon for the
Queen's birthday—Ideas of the ignorant Moslems about European Sovereigns—Other ..."
6. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1909)
"Four February birthdays JULIA HARRIS MAY Four masters of our hind began to play
The harp of freedom tuned to grief or mirth, Or hope that still doth echo ..."
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