Lexicographical Neighbors of Bayadeer
Literary usage of Bayadeer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley (1858)
"Tho kite-dance is among tho most famous and popular of the bayadeer's
performance*.—Having thus been graduated in the ..."
2. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1858)
"... the 'Amazons' of antiquity and of South-America, and the 'bayadeer' of India.
The series of articles on ' Animal,' ' Animal Electricity,' ' Animal Heat ..."
3. A Dictionary of Musical Terms: Containing Upwards of 9,000 English, French by Theodore Baker (1895)
"Bayadere', bayadeer'. East-Indian dancing-girl. Ba'yla, Ba'yle (Span.) A dance ;
bayle has the more comprehensive signification. bb (Ger. ..."
4. German Literature in American Magazines Prior to 1846 by Scott Holland Goodnight (1907)
"Poem, The Indian God and the bayadeer [Der Gott un,l die Bajadere. Goethe].
With a note in defence of the poem. (9 stanzas.) 649. I: 408. ..."
5. Sociology Based Upon Ethnography by Charles Létourneau, Henry Merivale Trollope, Charles Jean Marie Letourneau (1893)
"... these useless sources of pleasure were reserved to the courtesan and to the
bayadeer. The husband habitually spoke of his wife as " servant " or " slave ..."
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