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Definition of Noirish
1. noir [adj] - See also: noir
Lexicographical Neighbors of Noirish
Literary usage of Noirish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1864)
"... At the gun's outbreak, as with light divine, Ere they descend to noirish root
and stilk Of valley flowers. ..."
2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, Sandford Nevile, Court of Exchequer Chamber, Court of King's Bench, Erskine Perry, Great Britain (1838)
"... but with the authority of Ex parte noirish (a) before us, and the serious
doubts (to say no more) which we entertain, whether the magistrates have the ..."
3. Dwight's Journal of Music: A Paper of Art and Literature by John Sullivan Dwight (1873)
"It reads as follow« : "It is knowledge that is destined to noirish and to chasten
the holy uame of art in it« disciples. ..."
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