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Definition of Ptisans
1. ptisan [n] - See also: ptisan
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ptisans
Literary usage of Ptisans
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Medico-chirurgical Review, and Journal of Practical Medicine (1844)
"ON THE USB OF ptisans IN FRANCK. The following very sensible observations on the
use of ptisans, and on some other points in French medical practice, ..."
2. Travels in Upper and Lower Egypt: Undertaken by Order of the Old Government by Charles Sigisbert Sonnini, Henry Hunter (1807)
"... reflections on the Bedouins—Agriculture-^* Corn—Bread—Fennel-flour—Sesamum,
or oily grain—ptisans—Barley—Flax—Indigo— ..."
3. The Medico-chirurgical Review by James Johnson, Henry James Johnson (1844)
"ON THE USE OF ptisans IN FRANCE. The following very sensible observations on the
use of ... The number of ptisans used in France is very considerable ..."
4. The Mother's Work with Sick Children. by Jean Baptiste Fonssagrives (1872)
"The English make fun of our mania for ptisans, and they are not altogether wrong,
but they verge on exaggeration when they affirm that the choice of ..."