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Definition of Slumming
1. vb. n. Visiting slums.
Definition of Slumming
1. Verb. (present participle of slum) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Slumming
1. slum [v] - See also: slum
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slumming
Literary usage of Slumming
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Legal Sunday, Its History and Character: Its History and Character by James Trapier Ringgold (1894)
"... and between Vice and Crime, with some Observations 01* Clerical slumming.
WHILE this work was preparing for the press, it was suggested to the author, ..."
2. The Confessions of a Caricaturist by Harry Furniss (1902)
"... Thompson (Lady Butler)—slumming—The Boat Race—Realism—A Phantasmagoria—Orlando
and the Caitiff— Fancy Dress Balls—Lewis Wingfield—Cinderella—A Model—All ..."
3. Later Leaves: Being the Further Reminiscences of Montagu Williams by Montagu Stephen Williams (1891)
"... "slumming" as a popular amusement—The rookeries described —Thieving and honest
toil—A pecuniary comparison—A shilling earned in seventeen hours. ..."
4. In the Sixties and Seventies, Impressions of Literary People and Others by Laura Hain Friswell (1906)
"... CENSOR DINNERS- slumming IN THOSE DAYS A SAD STORY—" HAVE WE BEAT ? " I OFTEN
thought our house was a kind of refuge for the unhappy and distressed, ..."
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