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Definition of Mynheers
1. mynheer [n] - See also: mynheer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mynheers
Literary usage of Mynheers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Modern Dunciad: A Satire : with Notes, Biographical and Critical by George Daniel (1815)
"... From Holland grave mynheers, egregious knaves: There Indian jugglers ply their
trade for hire, And here a Prussian lady swallows ..."
2. The Modern Dunciad: A Satire; with Notes, Biographical and Critical by George Daniel (1816)
"... From Holland grave mynheers, egregious knaves : There Indian jugglers ply
their trade for hire, And here a Prussian lady swallows fire; While rushing ..."
3. Strictures on Mr. Collier's New Edition of Shakespeare, 1858 by Alexander Dyce (1859)
"... to inform us how An-heires could have been mistaken for mynheers. ... with all
future editors, and turn the scale for ever in favour of " mynheers. ..."
4. Thumb-nail Sketches by George Wharton Edwards (1893)
"The stranger accepted, and bowed in return, and the salutation was repeated by
the mynheers on the slippery bench; which formality being at an end, ..."
5. The Works of Washington Irving by Washington Irving (1859)
"He lay still, however, until all the house was quiet, excepting the snoring of
the mynheers from the different chambers; who answered one another in all ..."
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