2. Verb. (third-person singular of gore) ¹
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Definition of Gores
1. gore [v] - See also: gore
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gores
Literary usage of Gores
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Clothing for Women; Selection, Design, Construction: A Practical Manual for by Laura Irene Baldt (1916)
"Panel front, two side gores and two narrow back gores. Four or six gores are ...
Back gores.—Measure from center back, one-eighth the hip measure on ..."
2. Vehicles of the Air: A Popular Exposition of Modern Aeronautics with Working by Victor Lougheed (1910)
"Layout of gores for Spherical Balloon. The dimension ae is one-half of the ...
c is the circumference divided by the number of gores it is intended to use. ..."
3. Dressmaking: A Manual for Schools and Colleges by Jane Fales (1917)
"(i) By the use of many gores cut wide at the bottom in proportion to the size at
the hip; that is, gores which may be fitted at the waist and the hip and ..."
4. Vehicles of the Air: A Popular Exposition of Modern Aeronautics with Working by Victor Lougheed (1909)
"... 6 c is the circumference divided hy the numher of gores it la intended to use.
... shape of the gores is found by laying them out as shown in Figure 3. ..."
5. Narrative and Critical History of America by Justin Winsor (1886)
"The Schoner globe of 1515, often cited as the Frankfort globe ; the Schoner globe
of 1520; the so-called Tross gores of 1514-1519; the map of Petrus ..."
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