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Definition of Cockfights
1. cockfight [n] - See also: cockfight
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cockfights
Literary usage of Cockfights
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Aristophanes Clouds by Aristophanes (1915)
"For game-cocks and cockfights see A. 166, E. 494-97 (c. schol. on 494), 946, V.
1490, Av. 71, R. 935 (?), Xen. ... Also vase paintings present cockfights or ..."
2. Paz and Pablo: A Story of Two Little Filipinos by Addie Fouts Mitchell (1917)
"Many people would gather to see the cockfights. The man whose cock won would be
... Besides, Paz thought it could not be right to take part in cockfights. ..."
3. Hansard's Parliamentary Debates by Great Britain Parliament, Thomas Curson Hansard (1875)
"MACDONALD asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, If his attention
has been directed to frequent accounts of cockfights which are said to have ..."
4. The Sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent by Washington Irving (1894)
"He was foremost at all races and cockfights ; and, with the ascendency which
bodily strength acquires in rustic life, was the umpire in all fe) ..."
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