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Definition of Bluebacks
1. blueback [n] - See also: blueback
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bluebacks
Literary usage of Bluebacks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lessons on Practical Subjects by Sarah (Forbes) Hughes, Catherine W. Faucon (1902)
"AND WHAT ARE bluebacks? "\7"OU remember that the Secretary of the -*• Treasury
was doubtful about the wisdom of his plan of forcing the people to use paper ..."
2. The World Book: Organized Knowledge in Story and Picture edited by Michael Vincent O'Shea, Ellsworth D. Foster, George Herbert Locke (1917)
"The bluebacks are about a thud as large, their average weight being from ...
black spots, and the head has a metallic luster; the bluebacks are a bright ..."
3. Robinson Crusoe's money; or, The remarkable financial fortunes and by David Ames Wells (1876)
"All such, as a part of their peace policy, opposed the original issue and
circulation of the bluebacks as something arbitrary, illegal, and unnecessary. ..."
4. Glimpses of Maori Land by Annie Robina Butler (1886)
"Miss Weston's ' bluebacks' are much prized on board the Raleigh. There are 45
messes, and 16 to 20 men in a mess, and each mess has monthly four or six of ..."
5. Fishes and Fishing in Sunapee Lake by William Converse Kendall (1913)
"Since then no bluebacks, to the writer's knowledge., have been taken in Rangeley
... The increase in size of the few remaining bluebacks is ascribed to the ..."
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