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Definition of Bilkers
1. bilker [n] - See also: bilker
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bilkers
Literary usage of Bilkers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1910)
"First perform'd on the theatre in Drury Lane 1716.' 'The Tavern bilkers' was
played at Drury Lane with Farquhar's 'The Constant Couple' on Oct. 23,1702. ..."
2. The Gentleman's Magazine (1832)
"Besides these pieces, the most remarkable of the season were “an Italian night-scene,
called the Cheats, or the Tavern bilkers, in a dialogue between ..."
3. Gentleman's Magazine Library edited by George Laurence Gomme, Frank Alexander Milne, Lady A C Bickley, Mrs Alice Bertha Merck Gomme (1904)
"Besides these pieces, the most remarkable of the season were: " An Italian
night-scene, called the Cheats, or the Tavern bilkers, in a dialogue between ..."
4. The Spectator by Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1753)
"... had any Female bilkers on the Stage, which did not, upon cool Examination,
appear to flow from the ..."
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