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Definition of Sugarplums
1. sugarplum [n] - See also: sugarplum
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sugarplums
Literary usage of Sugarplums
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray: in twenty-four volumes. by William Makepeace Thackeray (1868)
"She laughed one day when Major sugarplums' cab drove up to Fulham, and he descended
from it, bringing out a wooden horse, a drum, a trumpet, ..."
2. The Private Journal of Aaron Burr, During His Residence of Four Years in by Aaron Burr (1838)
"It is a famous manufactory of sugarplums and the like; ... I bought a box in
imitation of a pear, filled with sugarplums, for twenty sous, ..."
3. The Rational Method in Reading: An Original Presentation of Sight and Sound by Edward Gendar Ward, Ellen E. Kenyon-Warner, William Landon Felter, Mary Anna Ward (1903)
"But up in that tree sits a chocolate cat, And a gingerbread dog prowls below ;
And this is the way you contrive to get at Those sugarplums tempting you so ..."
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