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Definition of Fooleries
1. foolery [n] - See also: foolery
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fooleries
Literary usage of Fooleries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"I- The Authors Voyage and Acts in those parts ; Sea accidents, Moorish fooleries,
English Ships: Of Sofala, the Fort; the Fruits and Plants of those parts. ..."
2. Diary and correspondence of samuel pepys f.r.s.. by Samuel Pepys (1854)
"... and told me that he did intend to pull down the house and build a less, and
that he should get 1500/. by the old house, and I know not what fooleries. ..."
3. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"The Authors Voyage and Acts in those parts ; Sea accidents, Moorish fooleries,
English Ships: Of Sofala, the Fort; the Fruits and Plants of those parts. ..."
4. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"I- The Authors Voyage and Acts in those parts ; Sea accidents, Moorish fooleries,
English Ships : Of Sofala, the Fort ; the Fruits and Plants of those parts ..."
5. George Selwyn and His Contemporaries: With Memoirs and Notes by John Heneage Jesse (1844)
"... These fashionable fooleries were subsequently published under the title of "
Poetical Amusements at a villa near Bath."] ANTHONY MORRIS STORER, ESQ. ..."
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