Lexicographical Neighbors of Mousmees
Literary usage of Mousmees
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Queer Things about Japan by Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen (1903)
"We allowed Tarn to do the ordering, but told him to order food for the mousmees
only. while we had a bottle of the excellent ..."
2. Log-letters from "The Challenger" by George Campbell (1877)
"This lolling on the beautifully matted floor of a large room—low-ceiling'd, cool,
and pleasantly shaded; these quaint little "mousmees," some sitting by you ..."
3. Japan and Her People by Anna C. Hartshorne (1904)
"... for where the globe-trotter goes to play with what he calls " the mousmees "
one will not find anything either respectable or typically Japanese. ..."
4. The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women (1895)
"... and the revelry of their saké-drinking patrons ; and the whole street is
festooned with lanterns, and packed with little mousmees in brilliant dresses ..."
5. Romance of Old Japan by Elizabeth Williams Champney, Frère Champney (1917)
"Mild mousmees follow, wreathed in rosy veils With lotus-bloom bedight, from neck
to knees, Swarming about the chrysalis like bees, Wherefrom the spirit shed ..."
6. By the Waters of Carthage by Norma Lorimer (1906)
"... the habit of kissing was understood a few years ago by the mousmees in Japanese
tea-houses. So I indulged in many bows and idiotic smiles instead. ..."
7. Queer Things about Japan by Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen (1903)
"We allowed Tarn to do the ordering, but told him to order food for the mousmees
only. while we had a bottle of the excellent ..."
8. Log-letters from "The Challenger" by George Campbell (1877)
"This lolling on the beautifully matted floor of a large room—low-ceiling'd, cool,
and pleasantly shaded; these quaint little "mousmees," some sitting by you ..."
9. Japan and Her People by Anna C. Hartshorne (1904)
"... for where the globe-trotter goes to play with what he calls " the mousmees "
one will not find anything either respectable or typically Japanese. ..."
10. The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women (1895)
"... and the revelry of their saké-drinking patrons ; and the whole street is
festooned with lanterns, and packed with little mousmees in brilliant dresses ..."
11. Romance of Old Japan by Elizabeth Williams Champney, Frère Champney (1917)
"Mild mousmees follow, wreathed in rosy veils With lotus-bloom bedight, from neck
to knees, Swarming about the chrysalis like bees, Wherefrom the spirit shed ..."
12. By the Waters of Carthage by Norma Lorimer (1906)
"... the habit of kissing was understood a few years ago by the mousmees in Japanese
tea-houses. So I indulged in many bows and idiotic smiles instead. ..."
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