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Definition of Reddled
1. reddle [v] - See also: reddle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Reddled
Literary usage of Reddled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1857)
"Plough-Monday still obtains; the plough-witches or bullocks go their rounds with
their faces reddled, one of the party dressed as a female, ..."
2. History of California by Hubert Howe Bancroft (1886)
"They sometimes complained of the acts of government, reddled the past glories of
the missions, and pointed out the rum that secularization hod caused; ..."
3. British Popular Customs, Present and Past: Illustrating the Social and by Thomas Firminger Thiselton Dyer (1900)
"Tho pageant varies in different places; sometimes five persons precede the plough,
which is drawn by a number of boys with their faces blackened and reddled ..."
4. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1901)
"LEICESTER BUILDING, KENILWORTH CASTLE. distant wave, have in the late queen's
reign, spread over the globe and reddled the most distant lands. ..."
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