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Definition of Shushes
1. shush [v] - See also: shush
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shushes
Literary usage of Shushes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Writing of Today: Models of Journalistic Prose by John William Cunliffe, Gerhard Richard Lomer (1922)
"... shushes are directed at Pa, 30 _ Ancora un passo or via. the stage.) My, oh My !
anese servants and a Japanese maiden are on Is nt that beautiful ? ..."
2. A Select Glossary of English Words Used Formerly in Senses Different from by Richard Chenevix Trench (1859)
"So much for the silk in Judea, called Shesh in Hebrew, whence haply that fine
linen or silk is called shushes, worn at this day about the heads of eastern ..."
3. Folk-etymology: A Dictionary of Verbal Corruptions Or Words Perverted in by Abram Smythe Palmer (1882)
"See also Seiden, Titles of Honour, p. 184 ; Usher, Annales, p. 284 ; Prideaux,
Connexion, vol. ip 464. shushes are long towels of Callico wound about their ..."
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