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Definition of Mimicries
1. mimicry [n] - See also: mimicry
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mimicries
Literary usage of Mimicries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Survey of English Literature 1780-1880 by Oliver Elton (1920)
"1806: early tales and poems, and mimicries; (6) 1807-11: work with Mary Lamb;
disclosure of power in prose; tales from Shakespeare and Homer; Dramatic Potto ..."
2. The Journal of Sacred Literature by John Kitto, Henry Burgess, Benjamin Harris Cowper (1848)
"Have we not in childhood clapped our little hands at the curious pictorial
mimicries presented to the eye (albeit then we knew not of the borrowing), ..."
3. Clinical Lectures and Essays by James Paget (1879)
"If you study these mimicries from the mental side, you may, I say, ... But I
think I may assure you, that to regard all mimicries of organic diseases as ..."
4. Teaching to Read by Nellie Elfa Turner (1915)
"Quaint and vast mimicries : Quaint, fanciful; singular; curious. Vast, boundless;
of great extent. Can you imagine quaint and vast mimicries of human or of ..."
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