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Definition of Glissaded
1. glissade [v] - See also: glissade
Lexicographical Neighbors of Glissaded
Literary usage of Glissaded
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Alps from End to End by William Martin Conway (1895)
"Below the couloir we emerged on the avalanche-fan, down which we glissaded and
so reached the hut in an hour and a half's going from the summit. ..."
2. Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers: Being Excursions by Members of the Alpine Club by Alpine Club (London, England) (1862)
"As soon as we could do so with safety, we glissaded about 500 feet right ...
Our return journey was most luxurious, as we glissaded nearly the whole way, ..."
3. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1903)
"Rapidly we glissaded from this col to the glacier below ; then, skirting underneath
the great southern precipices of Forbes, we came to the foot of the ..."
4. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1892)
"Although the ascent had occupied 12 hours from the starting-point of the morning,
the descent, was accomplished in one hour, as the traveller glissaded down ..."
5. The Cornhill Magazine by George Smith (1867)
"... seized Lady LN, and before she could utter one shriek of protestation they
were flying down far below us. Her husband quickly glissaded after her, ..."
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