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Definition of Fiascos
1. fiasco [n] - See also: fiasco
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fiascos
Literary usage of Fiascos
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Horseless Age (1909)
"The Winter Contest fiascos. The annual Quaker City midwinter endurance contest,
which had almost attained to the standing of a classic event, ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1868)
"The worst of it was that his fiascos and misfortunes were not simply fiascos and
misfortunes over which sympathising friends ..."
3. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During by Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland, Thomasina Ross (1852)
"In Provence, an olive-tree thirty years old yields twenty pounds, or seven fiascos
of oil, so that it produces something less than a cocoa-tree. ..."
4. Colombia: Being a Geographical, Statistical, Agricultural, Commercial, and by Alexander Walker (1822)
"It may be reckoned, that on an average a tree produces annually a hundred nuts,
which yield eight fiascos* of oil. The fiasco is sold for two rials and a ..."
5. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During by Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland, Thomasina Ross (1872)
"It may be reckoned that, on an average, a tree produces annually a hundred nuts,
which yield eight fiascos % of oil. In Provence, an olive-tree thirty years ..."
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