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Definition of Marms
1. marm [n] - See also: marm
Lexicographical Neighbors of Marms
Literary usage of Marms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Massachusetts Teacher and Journal of Home and School Education by Massachusetts Teachers Association (1874)
"PLAIN CLOTHES FOR THE SCHOOL-marms. — We plead in the interest of our nation
against the fashion and extravagance in dress that is creeping into our public ..."
2. Nonsense: Or Hits and Criticisms on the Follies of the Day by Mark Mills Pomeroy, Marcus Mills (1870)
"If we wander forth to look for local items, behold, fifteen school-marms are there!
If we fly to the bluffs, on our running horse, behold, they are there, ..."
3. In Vinculis: Or, The Prisoner of War, Being the Experience of a Rebel in Two by Anthony M. Keiley (1866)
"Poor school-marms! They were incontinently dismissed by the heartless Government,
and the elevation of the unbleached received a mortal blow. ..."
4. The Writings of Bret Harte by Bret Harte (1896)
"A year after " Hawkins' Idiot Asylum " was completed, one day there drifted into
the valley a riotous cavalcade of " school-marms," teachers of the San ..."
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