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Definition of Etwee
1. n. See Étui.
Definition of Etwee
1. Noun. (obsolete form of etui) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Etwee
1. etui [n -S] - See also: etui
Lexicographical Neighbors of Etwee
Literary usage of Etwee
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1901)
"... the plural of twee or etwee, a surgical case; etwee being merely an Englished
form of MF ... became etwee, twee, ..."
2. Rational Recreations: In which the Principles of Numbers and Natural by William Hooper (1774)
"... and puts the etwee into the egg, ... according to the length of the etwee,
and the fwan is thereby ..."
3. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1899)
"Harry added a ring out of the stock which the jeweller happened to bring with
him, to the necklace and the etwee; and sumptuously bidding that individual to ..."
4. The Newgate Calendar: Comprising Interesting Memoirs of the Most Notorious by Andrew Knapp, William Baldwin (1824)
"He now imagined that he had got a valuable prize : but he at length pawned the
buckle and etwee for twelve shillings, finding that the Utter was base metal, ..."
5. The Criminal Recorder, Or, Biographical Sketches of Notorious Public by Student of the Inner Temple (1811)
"... when the family went to hed ; that Mrs. Persuade had locked up her gold watch,
etwee case, chain, seventeen guineas, &c- that waking ahout ..."
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