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Definition of Dogvanes
1. dogvane [n] - See also: dogvane
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dogvanes
Literary usage of Dogvanes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lives of the Early Flemish Painters: With Notices of Their Works by Sir Joseph Archer Crowe, Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle (1879)
"... or images of the Virgin, tabernacles and dogvanes.4 At one period he was
honoured with the more important commission of a "Last Judgment" for'the portal ..."
2. The Life of William Morris by John William Mackail (1899)
"... laid herring-bone fashion, and there are elaborate dogvanes on the gables.
From the door of it one looks down on to the flats about the river, ..."
3. Sea Fighters: Navy Yarns of the Great War by Warren Hastings Miller, Macmillan Company (1920)
""Blow my dogvanes, but ten years agone I'd have knocked ye into th' scuppers for
less, me lad!—I mean 'sir,' " he corrected hastily. ..."
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