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Definition of Tourbillons
1. tourbillon [n] - See also: tourbillon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tourbillons
Literary usage of Tourbillons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Artificial Fireworks: Improved to the Modern Practice, from the Minutest to by Robert Jones, John Muller (1776)
"To tourbillons may be fixed reports, in this manner r in the centre of the cafe
at top, ... By this method you may fix on tourbillons, ..."
2. The Pyrotechnist's Companion: Or, A Familiar System of Recreative Fireworks by G. W. Mortimer (1852)
"... powder half a pound, saltpetre two pounds and a half, sulphur half a pound,
glass-dust half a pound. 16. tourbillons. For four-ounce cases. ..."
3. Biography: Or, Third Division of "The English Encyclopedia" edited by Charles Knight (1867)
"... a nameless but imperishable monument the ' Apologie des tourbillons,' and
similar works, although they display a philosophical spirit, ..."
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