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Definition of Bongraces
1. bongrace [n] - See also: bongrace
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bongraces
Literary usage of Bongraces
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annals of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, in the Olden Time: In the Olden by John Fanning Watson (1857)
"... bongraces, (a bonnet of silk and cane,) negligees, stomachers, stays, hoops,
lappets, pinners, plaids, fans, busks, rumple, knots, <fcc., then worn and ..."
2. Costume in England: A History of Dress to the End of the Eighteenth Century by Frederick William Fairholt, Harold Arthur Lee-Dillon Dillon (1885)
"HEYWOOD'S Men/ Play betwene the Pardoner and Frere, 1533. " Straw hats shall be
no more bongraces From the bright sun to hide your faces. ..."
3. Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages by Percy Society (1849)
"... with golden studs: Straw hats shall be no more bongraces,|| From the bright
sun to hide your faces, For hempen smocks to help the itch, Have linen sewed ..."
4. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1857)
"&c., and children bongraces to ke<;]> their faces from being sun-burnt, because
beauty is delightful to all people. Poor Babin, 1739. ..."
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