Lexicographical Neighbors of Coarsish
Literary usage of Coarsish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report by Oklahoma Adjutant-general's office (1859)
"... with a gouge- chisel, the surface of this excavation rough from coarsish
punctures, and its margin on each side with five or six small unequal teeth. ..."
2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1875)
"... soa'urt uv u buul-eek,] she is a coarsish sort of a bullock (q. i'.). See COARSE.
COPER [koa'pur], sb. A dealer in horses of the low Gypsy type, ..."
3. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1872)
"At present this is far from being correct. The body is partially wrapped in a
black silk cloak (?), and in linen of a coarsish texture and of two or three ..."
4. China: Its History, Arts and Literature by Frank Brinkley (1902)
"Occasionally, however, a glaze irreproachable as to texture and colour is run
over dark, coarsish pate; such specimens belong usually tp the Chia-tsing, ..."
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