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Definition of Dourest
1. dour [adj] - See also: dour
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dourest
Literary usage of Dourest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Book of Ballads by Theodore Martin, William Edmondstoune Aytoun, John Leech (1903)
"The Queen was sitting at the cards, The King ahint her back; And aye she dealed
the red honours, And aye she dealed the black; And syne unto the dourest ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1891)
"... was no doubt due to the fact that his forefathers had slept peaceably side by
side with the " dourest" Presbyterians in the old kirkyard at Langside, ..."
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