Lexicographical Neighbors of Drabbed
Literary usage of Drabbed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1853)
"He would have drunk and diced, drabbed and hunted, like a primeval Warwickshire
squire ; and the world would have remained unendowed with the noblest poetry ..."
2. English Prose (1137-1890) by John Matthews Manly (1909)
""That's his way, child, to-day a tinker, to-morrow something else; and as for
being drabbed, I don't know what to say about it. ..."
3. Lavengro: The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest by George Henry Borrow (1907)
"... Not drabbed! what do you mean, bebee ? but look there, bebee ; ha, ha, look
at the gentleman's motions." " He is sick, child, sure enough. ..."
4. Publications by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1899)
"They were very tired-looking and foot-sore, and “drabbed,” and they came right
into his yard, marching two and two, several hundreds of them. ..."
5. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1884)
"... to poison the ' gorgio ' in the tent, as she had ' drabbed the porker '- these
and many other powerful passages seem to show that George Borrow might ..."
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