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Definition of Tissuey
1. resembling tissue [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tissuey
Literary usage of Tissuey
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1878)
"TYK pee-kee (piki) or Moqui bread is a thin tissuey substance of a greenish-blue
color; the sheets measure about two feet by a foot and a half, ..."
2. The Works of George Meredith by George Meredith (1897)
"'Try and love me still,' said the duchess, letting her take one unburnt corner,
and crumble the black tissuey fragments to smut in her hands. ..."
3. The Arena by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1906)
"When Congress refused to pass the legislation that the president desired, he did
not hesitate to usurp the legislative function, under "the tissuey pretence ..."
4. The Fortnightly Review (1866)
"Try and love me still," said the duchess, letting her take one unburnt corner,
and crumble the black tissuey fragments to smut in her hands. ..."
5. The Romance of Commerce by Harry Gordon Selfridge (1918)
"... without security at the back of it, rested only on the tissuey foundation of
public confidence— that this confidence must disappear sooner or later—that ..."
6. A Treatise on the Law of Banks and Banking by John Torrey Morse (1888)
"(6) How very tissuey the opinion is we shall see still more clearly on noticing
the manner in which it treats Bank of Washington v. Triplett, saying of it, ..."
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