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Definition of Keeners
1. keener [n] - See also: keener
Lexicographical Neighbors of Keeners
Literary usage of Keeners
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Francis Lieber, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1831)
"keeners ; the name of the Irish singing mourners. ... The keeners now generally
consist of a motley multitude of men, women and children, and the caoi- nan ..."
2. Essays in the Study of Folk-songs by Evelyn Martinengo Cesaresco (1886)
"The keeners may or may not be professional, and the keens are more often of a
... The Irish keeners are invariably women, as also are all the continental ..."
3. Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1835)
"keeners ; the name of the Irish ringing mourners. ... The keeners now generally
consist of a motley multitude of men, women and children, ..."
4. Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Francis Lieber, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1831)
"keeners ; the name of the Irish singing mourners. ... The keeners now generally
consist of a motley multitude of men, women and children, and the coot- nan ..."
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