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Definition of Squarsons
1. squarson [n] - See also: squarson
Lexicographical Neighbors of Squarsons
Literary usage of Squarsons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chaucer and His England by George Gordon Coulton (1908)
"... little controlled either by their bishops or by public opinion, drifted
naturally into the position of squarsons, hunters, and farmers. ..."
2. Chaucer and His England by George Gordon Coulton (1908)
"... little controlled either by their bishops or by public opinion, drifted
naturally into the position of squarsons, hunters, and farmers. ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1889)
"I had so long been living a highly decorous life among squires, squarsons, and
parsons, that .the " bit of the devil " in me broke out, and I longed again ..."
4. Report of the Proceedings by Church congress (1888)
"I found my parish endowed, and happily free from pew-rents ; but I lay under this
disadvantage, that I succeeded three generations of "squarsons. ..."
5. England and the English from an American Point of View by Price Collier (1909)
"... foxhounds themselves; men who shoot, and farm, and are what Sydney Smith
described as half county squire and half parson, under the name of "squarsons. ..."
6. Memoirs of Archbishop Temple by Ernest Grey Sandford (1906)
"The country parishes were often in the hands of men — "squarsons," they were
called—who were half country gentlemen and half parish priests, with a leaning ..."
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