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Definition of Quillets
1. quillet [n] - See also: quillet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Quillets
Literary usage of Quillets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Commentaries on the Law in Shakespeare: With Explanations of the Legal Terms by Edward Joseph White (1911)
"quillets of the law.— "Long. O, some authority how to proceed, Some tricks, some
quillets, how to cheat the devil."1 "Quillet," is no doubt derived from ..."
2. The Statutes at Large from the Magna Charta, to the End of the Eleventh by Great Britain (1763)
"Provided alway, That this aft, or branch concerning To which fort quillets, or
any thing therein contained, {hall not in any wife ..."
3. The Statutes at Large: From Magna Charta to ... 1869 by Great Britain (1763)
"Provided alway, That this act, or branch concerning TO which fort quillets, or
any thing therein contained, (hall not in any wife of quillets this be ..."
4. A History of the Older Nonconformity of Wrexham and Its Neibourhood: Being by Alfred Neobard Palmer (1893)
"There are two other interesting points as to the quillets in the Town Fields, of
which something may be said. First, as already has been pointed out, ..."
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