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Definition of Sitters
1. sitter [n] - See also: sitter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sitters
Literary usage of Sitters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Egg Farm; Or: The Management of Poultry on a Large Scale for by H. H. Stoddard (1899)
"MANAGEMENT OF sitters. A special management of sitters in a mild climate, with
mechanical contrivances for minimizing labor, has already been given, ..."
2. Wilson's Photographic Magazine (1904)
"He was one of the first to let his sitters do most of the posing, which is a very
different thing from photographing sitters who are not posed at ..."
3. Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun by Louise-Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, Lionel Strachey (1903)
"... PURITANICAL BRINGING-UP MALE sitters ATTEMPT FLIRTATION PUBLIC RESORTS OF
PARIS BEFORE THE REVOLUTION. I WILL begin by speaking of my childhood, ..."
4. Miscellanies by William Makepeace Thackeray (1877)
"... bear it: Carmine knows the exact proportions of the dose, and would not venture
to administer to his sitters any thing beyond the requisite quantity. ..."
5. Darkness and Daylight; Or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life: A Woman's by Helen Campbell, Thomas Wallace Knox, Thomas Byrnes (1892)
"One a grade lower, where a rope stretched a few inches above the "sitters" IN
THE WOMEN'S LODGING ROOM AT THE POLICE STATION-HOUSE. floor served as pillow, ..."
6. Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities by Shearjashub Spooner (1853)
"STUART'S sitters. A portrait was once returned to Stuart with the grievous
complaint, that the muslin of the cravat was too coarsely executed. ..."
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