Lexicographical Neighbors of Guisings
Literary usage of Guisings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. British Popular Customs, Present and Past: Illustrating the Social and by Thomas Firminger Thiselton Dyer (1900)
"These gyst-ales, or guisings, once ranked amongst the principal festivals of ...
In an early period of these guisings the fool was usually mounted on a ..."
2. Lancashire Legends, Traditions, Pageants, Sports, &c: With an Appendix by John Harland, Thomas Turner Wilkinson (1873)
"These guisings were frequently held in the spring, most probably about Lady Day,
... These gyst-ales, or guisings, once ranked amongst the principal ..."
3. Lancashire Legends, Traditions, Pageants, Sports, Etc., with an Appendix by John Harland (1873)
"These guisings were frequently held in the spring, most probably about Lady Day,
... These gyst-ales, or guisings, once ranked amongst the principal ..."
4. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1909)
"Of the dis- guisings and pageants a description is given by Hall which partly
resembles a well-known scene described by Cavendish and dramatised in the play ..."
5. Publications by Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) (1844)
"Concluding that any early details of court masques, dis- guisings, and revels,
will fall within the objects of the Shakespeare Society, and be adapted for ..."
6. Publications by Musical Antiquarian Society (1847)
"Concluding that any early details of court masques, dis- guisings, and revels,
will fall within the objects of the Shakespeare Society, and be adapted for ..."
7. Curiosities of Popular Customs and of Rites, Ceremonies, Observances, and by William Shepard Walsh (1897)
"In an early period of these guisings the fool was usually mounted on a hobby-horse,
and indulged in grotesque pranks as he passed along: hence we ..."
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