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Definition of Daubes
1. daube [n] - See also: daube
Lexicographical Neighbors of Daubes
Literary usage of Daubes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Anomalies and curiosities of medicine: Being an Encyclopedic Collection of by George Milbry Gould, Walter Lytle Pyle (1900)
"The anthropoid apes can easily break a cocoa- nut with their teeth, and Guyot-daubes
thinks that possibly a gorilla has a jaw-force of 200 pounds. ..."
2. The Picayune Creole Cook Book (1922)
"Then either bring: to the table in their jackets, as many prefer, or pare and
serve with a Drawn Butter Sauce, or with daubes, meats, sautés, etc., ..."
3. The Iliad by Homer (1851)
"... the swiftest of birds, easily daubes after a timid pigeon ; she, indeed, flies
away obliquely ; but he, close at hand, shrilly screaming, ..."
4. Censura Literaria: Containing Titles, Abstracts, and Opinions of Old English by Egerton Brydges (1815)
"Where fresh and fragrant flowers, may skorne the courtier's cost, Which daubes
himselfe with ..."
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