Lexicographical Neighbors of Cundies
Literary usage of Cundies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Account of the Kingdom of Caubul, and Its Dependencies in Persia, Tartary by Mountstuart Elphinstone (1839)
"All the relations of each Cundy are to its own clan, and it does not seem more
connected with the other cundies in the same village, than if they lived in ..."
2. Transactions by Mining Institute of Scotland (1891)
"Again, the roadside buildings in our case are put in 3 to 4 yards across the
face, the open cundies being in the centre of the walls. ..."
3. The Oriental Interpreter and Treasury of East India Knowledge: A Companion (1848)
"The men wear above their cundies large square combs of tortoise shell, underneath
which is a small semicircular one. Young unmarried women are generally to ..."
4. Recollections of Ceylon, After a Residence of Nearly Thirteen Years: With an by James Selkirk (1844)
"The men wear above their cundies large square combs of tortoise-shell, underneath
which is a small semicircular one. Instead of combs to fasten up the hair, ..."
5. The Coal and Metal Miners' Pocketbook of Principles, Rules, Formulas, and Tables by Thomas J. Foster (1905)
"... as the roadside ones, particularly when the seam produces enough waste material
to stow the "marches," "cundies," or "gobs," between these pack walls. ..."
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