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Definition of Carbies
1. carby [n] - See also: carby
Lexicographical Neighbors of Carbies
Literary usage of Carbies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Boston Cooking School Magazine of Culinary Science and Domestic Economics by Mass Boston Cooking School (Boston, Boston Cooking School (Boston, Mass.) (1914)
"... fourteen ounces of butter, six ounces of sugar, two eggs, half an ounce of
caraway comfits, or "carbies" as they are called in the land of cakes, ..."
2. The Edinburgh Almanack, Or Universal Scots and Imperial Register, (1828)
"R. Cathcart of carbies- ton, RNV Wilson, writer, Glasgow as. Kibble of Whiteford
ohn Maxwell, yr. of Pollock, к. p. .t.-gen. Jas. ..."
3. History of the Counties of Ayr and Wigton by James Paterson (1863)
"... as none of the carbies- ton family left co-heiresses, save William, who died
in 1547, and one of them dying, the other became the sole heiress. ..."
4. Twilight by Julia Frankau (1916)
"Tell him I have gone straight up to carbies. I shall see Mrs. Capel." " The lady
from carbies is here, ma'am; having tea on the terrace, that's her carriage ..."
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