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Definition of Displumed
1. displume [v] - See also: displume
Lexicographical Neighbors of Displumed
Literary usage of Displumed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Letters of Algernon Charles Swinburne by Algernon Charles Swinburne, Edmund Gosse, Thomas James Wise (1918)
"If either fly with so displumed wing That chance and time and this imprisoned
sense Can maim or measure the spanned flight of it By the ruled blanks of ..."
2. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"You have sent them to us with their arms reversed, their shields broken, their
impresses defaced; and so displumed, degraded, and metamorphosed, ..."
3. Minor Poets of the Caroline Period by George Saintsbury (1905)
"... stood Where they appoint to meet, like those of fate Obscure and dark, by
beasts and birds that hate The light alone frequented ; but love had displumed ..."
4. The Gentleman's Magazine (1828)
"... both for the eloquence of their style, and the great powers of mind they
exhibit; and however their nominal author may have been displumed of his ..."
5. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"... and Wood-land, in severall Hundreds, as displumed. the upper and nether
Hundreds, Roch-dale Hundred, Long Wests Sherly Hundred, and Digges his Hundred. ..."
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