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Definition of Mousmée
1. mousme [n -S] - See also: mousme
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mousmée
Literary usage of Mousmée
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Queer Things about Japan by Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen (1903)
"A Japanese grisette—the mousmee of literature—is capable of being as pretty ...
the Fountain” is a thoroughly characteristic type of the Japanese mousmee. ..."
2. Log-letters from "The Challenger" by George Campbell (1877)
"In despair, and no doubt looking very foolish, you appeal to your own particular
mousmee for help, and she, shrieking with laughter, shows you over and over ..."
3. Romance of Old Japan by Elizabeth Williams Champney, Frère Champney (1917)
"Bereft How well I recollect the day Now many years agone, When as a mousmee, mild
and gay, I left my mother's home. How dearly I remember too The cottage ..."
4. On the Cars and Off: Being the Journal of a Pilgrimage Along the Queen's by Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen (1895)
"The papoose, which had bright, bead-like eyes, and a complexion as lovely as a
Japanese mousmee, played round like a Jew ..."
5. A Bibliography of the Japanese Empire: Being a Classified List of All Books by Friedrich Wenckstern, Léon Pagès (1907)
"Sladen" D. The mousmee or his sweetheart in Japan, music composed Ъу WW Hedgcock,
4to., London, 1893. Smith, Miss LA The music of Japan. ..."
6. Queer Things about Japan by Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen (1903)
"A Japanese grisette—the mousmee of literature—is capable of being as pretty ...
the Fountain” is a thoroughly characteristic type of the Japanese mousmee. ..."
7. Log-letters from "The Challenger" by George Campbell (1877)
"In despair, and no doubt looking very foolish, you appeal to your own particular
mousmee for help, and she, shrieking with laughter, shows you over and over ..."
8. Romance of Old Japan by Elizabeth Williams Champney, Frère Champney (1917)
"Bereft How well I recollect the day Now many years agone, When as a mousmee, mild
and gay, I left my mother's home. How dearly I remember too The cottage ..."
9. On the Cars and Off: Being the Journal of a Pilgrimage Along the Queen's by Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen (1895)
"The papoose, which had bright, bead-like eyes, and a complexion as lovely as a
Japanese mousmee, played round like a Jew ..."
10. A Bibliography of the Japanese Empire: Being a Classified List of All Books by Friedrich Wenckstern, Léon Pagès (1907)
"Sladen" D. The mousmee or his sweetheart in Japan, music composed Ъу WW Hedgcock,
4to., London, 1893. Smith, Miss LA The music of Japan. ..."
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