Lexicographical Neighbors of Pheers
Literary usage of Pheers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Select Collection of Old English Plays by William Carew Hazlitt, Robert Dodsley (1874)
"... with thy sampler in the sun, Sit sewing with thy pheers, but I was by, Marking
thy lily hand's dexterity; Comparing it to twenty gracious things ? ..."
2. A Select Collection of Old Plays: In Twelve Volumes by Robert Dodsley, Isaac Reed, Octavius Gilchrist, John Payne Collier (1825)
"... pheers signifies a husband, a friend, or a companion, and in all these senses
it is used in our ancient writers. It here means a husband. ..."
3. England's Helicon: A Collection of Lyrical and Pastoral Poems: Published in 1600 by John Bodenham (1887)
"Fair Beauty, and her play-pheers gay, The virgins vestal too, Shall sit and with
their fingers play, ..."
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