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Definition of Disports
1. disport [v] - See also: disport
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disports
Literary usage of Disports
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1876)
"... hunting, &c. and such like disports and recreations (which our casuists tax) ;
are the sole exercise almost, and ordinary actions of our Nobility, ..."
2. The Diary of Henry Machyn, Citizen and Merchant-taylor of London, from A.D by Henry Machin, John Gough Nichols (1848)
"The procession of the lord of misrule, or " lord of merry disports " (as he was
also called), into London, which occurs subsequently in this page, ..."
3. Kettner's Book of the Table: A Manual of Cookery, Practical, Theoretical by Eneas Sweetland Dallas (1877)
"... takes his tail in his mouth to symbolize eternity, and then, after a dainty
roll in egg, fine breadcrumb and flour, disports himself in the frying-pan. ..."
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