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Definition of Heather mixture
1. Noun. Interwoven yarns of mixed colors producing muted greyish shades with flecks of color.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heather Mixture
Literary usage of Heather mixture
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1861)
"Tom's interlocutor put his hands in the pockets of his heather mixture shooting-coat,
... The man in the heather mixture had now shot his last bolt, ..."
2. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1874)
"BENJAMIN'S Heather-Mixture suits. Such as they are we print them, with the
unsatisfactory consolation that if the notes are bad they are like the sport and ..."
3. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"Griffith's mixture, a mixture containing Iron carbonate ; the mistura ferri
composite of the United States Pharmacopoeia.—heather mixture. Same as heather*. ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1892)
"Even the sameness of colour vanished then : the heather mixture of purple and
white, brown, yellow, and green, so insignificant in the distance, ..."
5. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1889)
"With other things there was a light heather mixture suit,^E which I have worn
for walking continually. The petty which I occasionally feel, bereft of mi— ..."
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