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Definition of Farragoes
1. farrago [n] - See also: farrago
Lexicographical Neighbors of Farragoes
Literary usage of Farragoes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography by Leslie Stephen, Sidney Lee (1885)
"... furnished by Bunn, the first of ! those astonishing farragoes of balderdash ¡
which raised the Drury Lane manager to the first rank amongst poetasters. ..."
2. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"... confused farragoes ever printed," search for this Note has been made, twice,
to no purpose; and with little hope of elucidation there, ..."
3. Diary of the American Revolution: From Newspapers and Original Documents by Frank Moore (1860)
"... but that the inhabitants, in all places, will look upon the latter and upon
all others which either you or General Howe may put out, as farragoes ..."
4. Graham's Magazine by Graham, George R, Edgar Allan Poe, John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1852)
"... than have them stuffed with such farragoes of imbecility, reckless assertion,
and plausible falsehood—under the plea of knowledge made popular—as, ..."
5. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1853)
"I listened duly and dutifully to half-a-dozen of these garbled farragoes of
fudge ; the miscarriages of blasé brains ..."
6. Shadows of the Old Booksellers by Charles Knight (1865)
"... books with those precious farragoes, in the room of which he intends introducing
them to his fellow citizens. In the heroes of the two to which he has ..."
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