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Definition of Homburgs
1. homburg [n] - See also: homburg
Lexicographical Neighbors of Homburgs
Literary usage of Homburgs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1887)
"Only disappointed gamesters who call the place Bad homburgs ; even with the rain,
it is not so bad after all. By the way, talking of nature of soil, ..."
2. Wit and Wisdom: A Public Affairs Miscellany by Colin Bingham (1982)
"... had become members of a rather plush club whose members wore homburgs, who
were highly respectable, and who stood for the status quo. ..."
3. Letters of Princess Elizabeth of England: Daughter of King George III. and by Elizabeth, Louisa Swinburne (1898)
"This weather makes me sleepy and 1 (See Pedigree of the homburgs at beginning of
this vol. and p. 90). Auguste, Princess of Hesse-Homburg, ..."
4. Through Western Madagascar in Quest of the Golden Bean by Walter D. Marcuse (1914)
"I was very much amused when he produced several white plaited homburgs with black
silk bands, which must have cost him at least six silver dollars apiece. ..."
5. Gartenflora: Monatsschrift Fur Deutsche und Schweizerische Garten- und by Eduard Regel (1902)
"... aus und der prächtigen, alle Welt entzückenden Gartenanlagen an dem berühmtesten
Brunnen homburgs, ..."
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