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Definition of Tattoos
1. tattoo [v] - See also: tattoo
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tattoos
Literary usage of Tattoos
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. With Star and Crescent: A Full and Authentic Account of a Recent Journey by A. Locher (1889)
"... Sheep Shearing—A Night's Kest—Forward Again—Meeting a Strange Cavalcade—The
Arab's Diversion—tattoos—Occupation of the Female Natives. ..."
2. The Bungalow and the Tent; Or, a Visit to Ceylon by Edward Robert Sullivan (1854)
"... tattoos "—PUNCH?. THE anchorage for vessels of more than one hundred tons
burden is very bad at Colombo, and except during the season of the coffee ..."
3. Transactions of the Seventh International Congress of Hygiene and Demography by Charles Edward Shelly (1892)
"It will be observed, however, that recruits coining in icit/t tattoos are examined
over those deserters who did not have such marks, as these devices might ..."
4. Illustrations of the History and Practices of the Thugs: And Notices of Some by Edward Thornton (1837)
"The loads on the tattoos were not examined on the spot; but taken to a place ...
Of the two tattoos taken with these prisoners, one of them was seen at ..."
5. The Handbook of Folklore by George Laurence Gomme (1890)
"Do they tattoo themselves, and what are the most usual tattoos? 382. Are the
tattoos fanciful, or are they copied one from another? ..."
6. The Handbook of Folklore by George Laurence Gomme (1890)
"Do they tattoo themselves, and what are the most usual tattoos? 382. ... Do the
men group themselves into classes according to their tattoos ? 384. ..."