Lexicographical Neighbors of Blaff
Literary usage of Blaff
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Grammar of the German Language: Designed for a Thoro and Practical Study by George Oliver Curme (1922)
"Bauten buildings) building, blaff bark (of a dog), Bold fellow, dwarf, Bord (rarely
neut.) edge, Bord (see 5. с below), *Born fount, «Borst crack, fissure, ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1863)
"... blaff, I went on board the Richmond, or Merrimac No; 2, as she is more generally
called, and I must say that the efforts made by the Southerners to ..."
3. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by John Beauchamp Jones (1866)
"The tremendous cannonading all day yesterday at Drewry's blaff was merely an
artillery duel—brought on by the heavy skirmishing of pickets. ..."
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