Lexicographical Neighbors of Glibs
Literary usage of Glibs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Illustrations of Irish History and Topography, Mainly of the Seventeenth by Caesar Litton Falkiner, Fynes Moryson, Josias Bodley, Luke Gernon, William Brereton, Albert Jouvin (1904)
"Yet I must likewise confess that the best part of the citizens did not then use
this Irish apparel.1 1 glibs,'a thick curled bunch of hair, hanging down ..."
2. Chamber's household edition of the dramatic works of William Shakespeare, ed by William Shakespeare (1861)
"Spenser mentions another species of locks worn by the native Irish in the reign
of Elizabeth; these were called glibs, 'which is a thick curled bush of hair ..."
3. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1889)
"... their glibs, the nailes of their fingers and toes, their dimis- or difficult
to be understood. ..."
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