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Definition of Pollies
1. polly [n] - See also: polly
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pollies
Literary usage of Pollies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. "Polly Peachum": Being the Story of Lavinia Fenton (duchess of Bolton) and by Charles E. Pearce (1913)
"... THE BEGGAR'S PANTOMIME The Beggar's Pantomime—Woodward's skit on the rival
pollies—Fielding's Historical Register for 30 satirises the Italian Opera and ..."
2. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1843)
"It has been vainly sought in the roar of battle, in the follies of fashion, in
the blandishments of fame ; but the Three pollies have found it far from the ..."
3. My Thirty Years Out of the Senate by Seba Smith (1859)
"The whole English fleet—the greatest fleet in the world—was afraid to pitch into
Cronstadt, up there in the Baltic. The Two pollies is brave and sure fire, ..."
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