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Definition of Makeshifts
1. makeshift [n] - See also: makeshift
Lexicographical Neighbors of Makeshifts
Literary usage of Makeshifts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Representative One-act Plays by British and Irish Authors by Clark, Barrett Harper, 1890- (1921)
"makeshifts GERTRUDE ROBINS GERTRUDE ROBINS, who died in 1917, ... My one-act
play 'makeshifts' was presented before that clever play 'Hindle Wakes', ..."
2. English Local Government from the Revolution to the Municipal Corporations by Sidney Webb, Beatrice Potter Webb (1906)
"... of the great Ellesmere Canal for its proprietors.8 (f) Executive, makeshifts
The inadequacy of the executive staff at the disposal of Quarter Sessions, ..."
3. Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society by Mississippi Historical Society, Franklin Lafayette Riley (1903)
"Among the glorious achievements of that stirring time, the "makeshifts" at home
claim a title to recognition, and a place (be it ever so humble) on the ..."
4. "An American Commoner": The Life and Times of Richard Parks Bland. A Study by William Vincent Byars (1900)
"makeshifts AND COMPROMISES. (From a Speech in the House of Representatives,
January 8, 1895.) All your makeshifts are but a fraud and a sham. ..."
5. The Quest of the Colonial by Robert Shackleton, Elizabeth Shackleton (1921)
"CHAPTER XIX makeshifts THACKERAY, in his delightfully reminiscent description of
... And it may be that some makeshifts which have come in our way may prove ..."
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