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Definition of Tautest
1. taut [adj] - See also: taut
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tautest
Literary usage of Tautest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1898)
"There was a movement, and then Том LANYARD, the smartest and tautest tar in the
service, took two paces to the front anti saluted. ..."
2. The Bookman (1917)
"... an unbroken succession of crises and dramatic incidents — life in the
International Settlement has been at the tautest stretch of tension since August, ..."
3. Twenty Years of Congress: From Lincoln to Garfield ; with a Review of the by James Gillespie Blaine (1884)
"... oath of duty to faithfully execute laws, against which he had constantly
entered his solemn tautest, not only as inexpedient but as unconstitutional. ..."
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