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Definition of Semes
1. seme [n] - See also: seme
Lexicographical Neighbors of Semes
Literary usage of Semes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Le Jongleur de Notre Dame: (The Juggler of Notre Dame); Miracle Play in by Jules Massenet, Maurice Lena (1907)
"... In the days of Louis XV the great French painters loved to portray semes of
the luxury-loving Court in the exquisite gardens of Versailles. ..."
2. The Cultivator by New York State Agricultural Society (1845)
"The land was first plowed, then laid olT by stakes or lines into strips Of four
or five feet wide—an interval of eighteen or semes ' No. ..."
3. The Edinburgh magazine, and literary miscellany, a new series of The Scots (1825)
"EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, AND LITERARY MISCELLANY, BEING A NEW semes OF SEPTEMBER 1824.
CONTENTS: PAGE Л Defence of the Letter to the Editor of the Edinburgh ..."
4. A Middle-English Dictionary: Containing Words Used by English Writers from by Francis Henry Stratmann (1891)
"2916; me semes WILL. 620 ; Wne eien semen dede Сн. TRO. iv. ... press upon ; ge semeS ..."