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Definition of Spaulds
1. spauld [n] - See also: spauld
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spaulds
Literary usage of Spaulds
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"Marvellous clasps of gold and silver in the kirtle on her breasts and her shoulders
and spaulds on every side. The sun kept shining upon her, ..."
2. The London Magazine by John Scott, John Taylor (1822)
"... instead of hanging full of the sides and spaulds of sheep, and deer hams, and
kippered salmon, and teats of wool, and hanks of yum, was gleaming from ..."
3. The Edinburgh Literary Journal; Or, Weekly Register of Criticism and Belles by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1830)
"... deil be in your fingers gin ye touch them as Jang • I hae the pith of a man
in my fore-spaulds,' said he. 1 Bailan ! My truly, billy, but ye ballast ..."
4. Epic and Saga: The Song of Roland; The Desstruction of Dá Derga's Hostel by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"Marvellous clasps of gold and silver in the kirtle on her breasts and her shoulders
and spaulds on every side. The sun kept shining upon her, ..."
5. Irish Prose: An Essay in Irish by Patrick Stephen Dinneen (1902)
"Marvellous clasps of gold and silver in the kirtle on her breasts and her shoulders
and spaulds on every side. The sun kept shining upon her, ..."
6. The Local Historian's Table Book: Of Remarkable Occurences, Historical Facts (1842)
"... spaulds cut off her! /" These anecdotes, trifling in themselves, will to many
appear unworthy of notice; yet, to those acquainted with the localities of ..."
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