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Definition of Piccanins
1. piccanin [n] - See also: piccanin
Lexicographical Neighbors of Piccanins
Literary usage of Piccanins
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pastels Under the Southern Cross by Margaret Louisa Woods (1911)
"All the piccanins say they are afraid of the Lion. ... The mules hurry, hurry,
the piccanins run, we jump and jolt in the waggon; and so home to dinner. ..."
2. In New South Africa: Travels in the Transvaal and Rhodesia by Harold Lincoln Tangye (1900)
"The huts are being mud plastered by sixteen Mashona women, twelve of whom have
piccanins on their backs as they work, they being slung, spread- legged, ..."
3. Gun and Camera in Southern Africa: A Year of Wanderings in Bechuanaland, the by Henry Anderson Bryden (1893)
"... were piccanins tied to their mothers' backs, and I was rash to begin again."
All through the afternoon we toiled up hill and down dale through a most ..."
4. Sessional Papers (1902)
"piccanins, 5s. to 15s. per month of 30 working days." The Sub-Committee are of
opinion that the following definition of a month and mode of settlement for ..."
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