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Definition of Saffrons

1. saffron [n] - See also: saffron

Lexicographical Neighbors of Saffrons

Literary usage of Saffrons

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Elements of the Theory and Practice of Chymistry by Pierre Joseph Macquer (1758)
"... be tempered in the fame manner as that made by cementation *. PROCESS IV. The Calcination of Iron. Sundry saffrons of Mars• TAKE filings of ..."

2. Andrew Jackson and Early Tennessee History by Samuel Gordon Heiskell, John Sevier (1920)
"Immediately after breakfast this morning Daniel saffrons, from Gallatin, ... I told Mr. saffrons that my Dinner parties were never of a partisan character. ..."

3. The Diary of James K. Polk During His Presidency, 1845 to 1849 by James Knox Polk, Milo Milton Quaife (1910)
"He told Mr. Turney that he should act with the Whig party, and that he apprehended that Mr. saffrons, who had, as he informed Mr. T., held a conversation ..."

4. Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of by Chetham Society (1858)
"The wild saffrons are unprofitable ; they are called in English ... The English meadow saffrons, the purple and the white, grow in England in great ..."

5. The House and Farm Accounts of the Shuttleworths of Gawthorpe Hall, in the by Shuttleworth family, John Harland (1858)
"The wild saffrons are unprofitable ; they are called in English ... The English meadow saffrons, the purple and the white, grow in England in great ..."

6. Chicago Historical Society Collection by Chicago Historical Society (1910)
"He told Mr. Turney that he should act with the Whig party, and that he apprehended that Mr. saffrons, who had, as he informed Mr. T., held a conversation ..."

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