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Definition of Dodoes
1. dodo [n] - See also: dodo
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dodoes
Literary usage of Dodoes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1802)
"... five abbots, three knights, and twenty dodoes, was fent to the courts of
Avignon and Rome, to require, in the name of the church and king, ..."
2. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1853)
"4. A ' SMART'MEDICAL STUDENT 'OUT WEST.' 5. THE 'GLORIOUS FOURTH' ON THE GREAT
PRAIRIE or THE ' FAR WEST. ' 6. THE 'dodoes ' op ..."
3. Eternal Possibilities: A Neutral Ground for Meaning and Existence by David Weissman (1977)
"There are of course no dodoes; but neither is it essential to the meaning of the
name that it designate some existing particular, for we construe the name ..."
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