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Definition of Ostentations
1. ostentation [n] - See also: ostentation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ostentations
Literary usage of Ostentations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Historical Memoirs of My Own Time by Nathaniel William Wraxall (1815)
"The expence of this ostentations piece of magnificence, did not fall short of
fifteen hundred Pounds ; and so incredible must the circumstance appear, ..."
2. Treatise Relative to the Testing of Water-wheels and Machinery: Also of by James Emerson (1892)
"Can such an ostentations display denote a high civilization t "EDUCATE THE IDIOTIC."
Can education to such bring happiness ? If ignorance is bliss under any ..."
3. The Arena by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1905)
"The professor may not want the ostentations; but he dislikes the sense of
inferiority the other man's ostentations give him and his fellow- professors—and ..."
4. Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country (1876)
"English marriages are not accompanied by ostentations processions, illuminations,
and street music ; and if ... On the same principle a tax on ostentations ..."
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