Lexicographical Neighbors of Flotages
Literary usage of Flotages
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1889)
"flotages. Things accidentally floating « seas or rivers. Blount. FLOTE. (1) Water.
Shot. The term w» ii» applied to dew in со. ..."
2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia by John Bouvier, Francis Rawle (1914)
"The florin of Tuscany is only twenty-seven cents in value. flotages. Things which
float by acci- f](-ut on the sea or great rivers. ..."
3. The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary: Comprising the Terms and Phrases of American by Walter A. Shumaker, George Foster Longsdorf (1922)
"flotages. Things which float by accident on the sea or great rivers. Blount.
The commissions of water bailiffs. Cunningham. ..."
4. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1847)
"flotages. Things accidentally floating on seas or rivers. Blount. FLOTE. (1) Water.
S/M*. The term was also applied to dew in со. Surrey. (2) Grieved. ..."
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