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Definition of Dabblers
1. dabbler [n] - See also: dabbler
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dabblers
Literary usage of Dabblers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memories of a Musical Career by Clara Kathleen Rogers (1919)
"CHAPTER XI FRIENDS OF THE HOUSE — MY FATHER'S LIBRARY — CONTRABAND LITERATURE —
PERCY HOUSE — PRYING EYES AND LISTENING EARS — dabblers IN SCIENCE ..."
2. A Catalogue of the Collection of Prints from the Liber Studiorum of Joseph by Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Francis Bullard, Grenville Lindall Winthrop, William Aspenwall Bradley, Emil Heinrich Richter, Joseph Mallord William Turner (1916)
"MARINE dabblers DRAWN AND ETCHED BY JMWTURNER ENGRAVED BY WILLIAM SAY THE ETCHING
FIRST STATE Lines on distant sea, imperfectly bitten, corrected with gray ..."
3. A Synopsis of Popery, as it was and as it is by William Hogan (1847)
"... dabblers and traffickers in politics; and there is scarcely one among them
whose "private history does not show him to be an abettor and an accomplice ..."
4. The Violin: Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators by George Hart (1875)
"FIDDLE MARKS AND THE CREDULOUS dabblers. It is said a drowing man will catch at
a straw ; the truth of the remark applies to the half-informed v 2 ..."
5. Popery! As it was and as it is: Also, Auricular Confession; and Popish Nunneries by William Hogan (1853)
"... themselves dabblers and traffickers in politics; and there is scarcely one
among them whose private history does not show him to be an abettor and an ..."
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