Definition of Sobriquets

1. Noun. (plural of sobriquet) ¹

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Definition of Sobriquets

1. sobriquet [n] - See also: sobriquet

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sobriquets

sobersidedness
sobersides
sobful
sobole
soboles
sobolevite
sobolevskite
soboliferous
sobornost
sobornost'
sobralia
sobre-vest
sobrieties
sobriety
sobriquet
sobriquets (current term)
sobs
soc
soc.
soca
socage
socager
socagers
socages
socaloin
socas
socca
soccage
soccages
soccer

Literary usage of Sobriquets

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts by Colonial Society of Massachusetts (1906)
"SOME sobriquets APPLIED TO WASHINGTON. That these are the blessings Columbia ... It need not be urged that the sobriquets, nicknames, and epithets which ..."

2. Guide to the Study and Use of Reference Books by Alice Bertha ( Kroeger, Isadore Gilbert Mudge, American Library Association (1908)
"sobriquets Frey, Albert Romer. sobriquets and nicknames. Bost. Houghton, 1889 [c 87] 482 p. 0. $3. 014 Explains the meaning of many well-known nicknames and ..."

3. Guide to the Study and Use of Reference Books by Alice Bertha Kroeger, American Library Association, Isadore Gilbert Mudge (1908)
"sobriquets Frey, Albert Romer. sobriquets and nicknames. Bost. Houghton, 1889 [<• 87] 482 p. O. $3. 014 Explains the meaning of many well-known nicknames ..."

4. English Surnames: An Essay on Family Nomenclature, Historical, Etymological by Mark Antony Lower (1849)
"OF OTHER SURNAMES ORIGINALLY sobriquets. GREAT proportion of nearly all the preceding classes of Surnames were in their primary application merely nicknames ..."

5. English Surnames: An Essay on Family Nomenclature, Historical, Etymological by Mark Antony Lower (1849)
"OF OTHER SURNAMES ORIGINALLY sobriquets. GREAT proportion of nearly all the preceding classes of Surnames were in their primary application merely nicknames ..."

6. Life in Brazil by Thomas Ewbank (1856)
"Dowries in Cocoa and Coffee- trees—Vegetable and other sobriquets. — Horsewomen.—Officers' Wives on Drill in Military Costume.—Morals of the Priesthood. ..."

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