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Definition of Prinks
1. prink [v] - See also: prink
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prinks
Literary usage of Prinks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Novelist's Magazine (1784)
"... the window but Mrs. prinks come in ; (he brought my lady's diamond necklace,
and pledged it for a hundred ami twenty, or a hundred and thirty guineas, ..."
2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1885)
"... i M. prinks, ii. 32, iii. 184; Hooker's Companion to Bot. Mag. ii. (1836) 227.]
BDJ ANDERSON, WILLIAM (1757-1837), marine painter, exhibited at the ..."
3. A Modern Instance by William Dean Howells (1881)
"Flinging open the door, he beheld his wife dressed in one of her best silks,
before the mirror, bestowing some last prinks, touching her back hair with her ..."
4. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Arthur Stedman, Edmund Clarence Stedman (1894)
"Yet something stays,—a sense of distant woe, As now, this hour, while the green
lizards glide Across the sun-wanned stones, and yonder bird prinks with ..."
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