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Definition of Quaighs
1. quaigh [n] - See also: quaigh
Lexicographical Neighbors of Quaighs
Literary usage of Quaighs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Noctes Ambrosianæ by John Wilson, Robert Shelton Mackenzie, James Hogg, William Maginn, John Gibson Lockhart (1866)
"M. t These quaighs, which were little cups of curiously dovetailed woods, ...
It is not difficult to imagine how true Scotchmen would value quaighs which ..."
2. Noctes Ambrosianæ by John Wilson, Robert Shelton Mackenzie, James Hogg, William Maginn, John Gibson Lockhart (1866)
"John, the quaighs.f Here, gentlemen, is some Glenlivet * This was an imaginary
... M. t These quaighs, which were little cups of curiously dovetailed woods, ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1828)
"John, the quaighs.—Here, gentlemen, is some Glenlivet—the вате sort that carried
the prize the last time our friends the Barons of Exchequer had ..."
4. The Works of Walter Scott, Esq by Walter Scott (1806)
"Nor lacked they, while they sat at dine, The music, nor the tale, Nor goblets of
the blood-red wine, Nor mantling quaighs * of ale. ..."
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