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Definition of Picaninnies
1. picaninny [n] - See also: picaninny
Lexicographical Neighbors of Picaninnies
Literary usage of Picaninnies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes of a Half-pay in Search of Health: Or, Russia, Circassia, and the by William Jesse (1841)
"... The Foundling Hospital—A regiment of picaninnies—The boys at dinner—The
governor's surprise—The rural wet nurses—A new arrival—The ledgers—A permanent ..."
2. My Australian Girlhood: Sketches and Impressions of Bush Life by Campbell Praed, Rosa Caroline Praed (1902)
"The gins and the picaninnies were always in the lagoon, which facilitated our
intercourse. They used to dive under the blue water-lilies and pluck up the ..."
3. Great Zimbabwe, Mashonaland, Rhodesia: An Account of Two Years' Examination by Richard Nicklin Hall (1905)
"The picaninnies, armed with bows and arrows, indulge in target practice, and make
it ruinous to stick up lunch biscuits at forty paces. ..."
4. Publications by Mississippi Historical Society (1916)
"... failed to impress the spinster lady, bent on teaching 'her flock of picaninnies.
In sore trouble the planter betook himself to the bureau commissioner, ..."
5. Notes of a Half-pay in Search of Health: Or, Russia, Circassia, and the by William Jesse (1841)
"... The Foundling Hospital—A regiment of picaninnies—The boys at dinner—The
governor's surprise—The rural wet nurses—A new arrival—The ledgers—A permanent ..."
6. My Australian Girlhood: Sketches and Impressions of Bush Life by Campbell Praed, Rosa Caroline Praed (1902)
"The gins and the picaninnies were always in the lagoon, which facilitated our
intercourse. They used to dive under the blue water-lilies and pluck up the ..."
7. Great Zimbabwe, Mashonaland, Rhodesia: An Account of Two Years' Examination by Richard Nicklin Hall (1905)
"The picaninnies, armed with bows and arrows, indulge in target practice, and make
it ruinous to stick up lunch biscuits at forty paces. ..."
8. Publications by Mississippi Historical Society (1916)
"... failed to impress the spinster lady, bent on teaching 'her flock of picaninnies.
In sore trouble the planter betook himself to the bureau commissioner, ..."
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