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Definition of Redbacks
1. redback [n] - See also: redback
Lexicographical Neighbors of Redbacks
Literary usage of Redbacks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life and Select Literary Remains of Sam Houston of Texas by William Carey Crane (1884)
"It may be described as the financial system of unlimited issue of irredeemable
treasury notes known as redbacks. Their decline in value, mentioned already ..."
2. Memoirs, with Special Reference to Secession and the Civil War by John Henninger Reagan (1906)
"He said the regular army of Texas consisted of but a single regiment; that the
pay was poor (being at that time in depreciated "redbacks") ; that unless ..."
3. Memoirs, with Special Reference to Secession and the Civil War by John Henninger Reagan (1906)
"He said the regular army of Texas consisted of but a single regiment; that the
pay was poor (being at that time in depreciated "redbacks") ; that unless ..."
4. Gold Hunting in Alaska by Joseph Grinnell (1901)
"Good-by, mice, little redbacks; good-by, sand-dunes and tundras, winter, spruces,
birches, cabin, all. Good-by, Eskimos, funny people, who have a kind heart ..."
5. The Historical Magazine and Notes and Queries Concerning the Antiquities by John Gilmary Shea, Henry Reed Stiles (1864)
"... that they got the name of redbacks. When the Treasury notes appeared with he
ornamental back in green, they readily ook the name of Greenbacks. JH j. ..."
6. A Memoir to the Map and Delineation of the Strata of England and Wales with by William Smith (1815)
"In Wiltshire it is called corn- brash, and in Northamptonshire redbacks. It makes,
generally, a good soil. Its course is marked by several considerable ..."
7. The Clerk of the Woods by Bradford Torrey (1903)
"I have only now noticed (a .slight cry having drawn my attention) that there are
sandpipers of another kind here — a little flock of dunlins, or redbacks. ..."
8. The Evolution of a State: Or, Recollections of Old Texas Days by Noah Smithwick (1900)
"Their distress was relieved when the exchequer bills replaced the dishonored
redbacks, as the treasury notes were called. But again the currency depreciated ..."
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