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Definition of Burinists
1. burinist [n] - See also: burinist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Burinists
Literary usage of Burinists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York public library (1910)
"There were also about 140 proofs, many before letters, of those line engravings
of the late i8th and early igth centuries, in which burinists of note such ..."
2. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1841)
"... this word “conditions” upset all, and the Tam. burinists asked, “Will you
engage him—yes or no?” Laporte said he would make proposals, ..."
3. Nollekens and His Times: Comprehending a Life of that Celebrated Sculptor by John Thomas Smith (1829)
"... without incurring the displeasure of my brother burinists, consider the plates
of Southwark Fair and the Cockpit, as productions unrivalled in this or ..."
4. The Foreign Quarterly Review (1841)
"... and that at the very origin of the new art there were very many expert burinists
who were at once able to apply their hands to the interesting labour. ..."
5. A Book for a Rainy Day: Or, Recollections of the Events of the Years 1766-1833 by John Thomas Smith (1905)
"To men of their talent (and there are several among these pigmy burinists), I
will venture, now I am upon the silver streams of noble Father Thames, ..."
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