Lexicographical Neighbors of Shavies
Literary usage of Shavies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of the Gipsies: With Specimens of the Gipsy Language by Walter Simson (1866)
"... shavies, children, Son. dren,) * In the report of the Fourteenth Gipsies'
Festival, held at Southampton, under the superintendence of the Rev. ..."
2. The Harvest of the Sea: A Contribution to the Natural and Economic History by James Glass Bertram (1869)
"... best mode of giving an idea of the language and pronunciation of the Buckie
bodies :— SCENE—A Cure^s Office. PRESENT—The CURER and the three " shavies. ..."
3. Story of Government: From Savagery to Civilization edited by Henry Austin (1893)
"... one of the meanings of which is to scold; "shavers," as applied to little
children, is from shavies (children); a "rum'un" is from Rum or Rom (a gypsy), ..."
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