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Definition of Missees
1. missee [v] - See also: missee
Lexicographical Neighbors of Missees
Literary usage of Missees
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Writings of Charles Dickens by Charles Dickens, Gilbert Ashville Pierce (1894)
"The comic Englishwoman 's name (she kept lodgings and was a very bad character)
was missees Christmas. She had begun to get into great difficulties with a ..."
2. On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle, John Chester Adams (1907)
"He missees it, mistakes it as we say; takes it for one thing, and it ix another
thing, — and leaves him standing like a Futility there! ..."
3. Charles Dickens and the Stage: A Record of His Connection with the Drama as by Thomas Edgar Pemberton (1888)
"The comic Englishwoman's name (she kept lodgings and was a very bad character)
was missees Christmas. ..."
4. Letters from Egypt, 1863-65 by Lucie Duff Gordon (1865)
"... he said, was the same as "missees." I don't know how he acquired his ideas on
the subject of English precedence. Omar has just come in with coffee, ..."
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