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Definition of Doughfaces
1. doughface [n] - See also: doughface
Lexicographical Neighbors of Doughfaces
Literary usage of Doughfaces
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Rev. Calvin Fairbank During Slavery Times: How He "fought the Good Fight" to by Calvin Fairbank (1890)
"He was against Mr. Webster, and poured out denunciation against the " doughfaces
with their ears and eyes filled with cotton. ..."
2. An Epistle to Posterity: Being Rambling Recollections of Many Years of My Life by Mary Elizabeth Wilson Sherwood (1897)
"... Benton, and Clay —A Sight for Northern "doughfaces" —The 7th-of-March
Speech—Chester Harding—Two Stories of Webster—President Tyler's Inauguration—State ..."
3. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"1850 Mr. Root avows his object in moving the Wilmot proviso to be (in his own
peculiar language), " to smoke out the doughfaces on each side of the line. ..."
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