Lexicographical Neighbors of Buckeens
Literary usage of Buckeens
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1902)
"At Ennis, as well as everywhere else in Ireland, there were of course the regular
number of swaggering-looking buckeens and shabby-genteel idlers to watch ..."
2. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah by Sir Richard Francis Burton (1893)
"But they rode hard as Galway "buckeens," and there was a gallant reckless look
about the fellows which prepossessed me strongly in their favour. ..."
3. Transatlantic Sketches, Comprising Visits to the Most Interesting Scenes in by James Edward Alexander (1833)
"... suited in size for an adult or for a child a day old ; the buckeens, or women,
were commonly baking the flour of Cassava on an iron plate, ..."
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