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Definition of Caperers
1. caperer [n] - See also: caperer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Caperers
Literary usage of Caperers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dry Fly Entomology: A Brief Description of Leading Types of Natural Insects by Frederic Michael Halford (1897)
"Hence what are known as caperers vary much in size and in colour, ... I have
taken here, however, as the type of the caperers the largest which is classed ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"It is now raining heavily—so heavily, that most of the gnats, midges, and caperers
are driven ashore, or sent water-logged down the stream ; but if you look ..."
3. The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha by Miguel de ( Cervantes Saavedra, Henry Edward Watts (1888)
"Think ye that all the valiant ones are dancers, and Knights Errant caperers ?
Let me tell you, if you think so, you are wrong ; a man there may be who shall ..."
4. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1791)
"... at by the light caperers of catgut, dance, and fong, who are fo very much his
inferiors in found ..."
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