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Definition of Pointier
1. pointy [adj] - See also: pointy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pointier
Literary usage of Pointier
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The revolt of the Protestants of the Cevennes by Anna Eliza Bray (1870)
"The first, named Jaques pointier, was attended in prison by a Roman Catholic ...
"Retire," exclaimed pointier, "it is not in man that I put my trust in my ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General (1890)
"... pointier out the ethical or moral precepts which may be deduced from his
productions, and this circumstance makes it of considerable value and Interest ..."
3. British Family Names: Their Origin and Meaning, with Lists of Scandinavian by Henry Barber (1903)
"Fr. pointier ; a pn (a maker of points). Or see Pont POINTIN. See Poynton POINTS.
From Pontoise (?) ; a loc. n., Norm. Ponz, under-tenant in DD Nicholas ..."
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