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Definition of Oddities
1. oddity [n] - See also: oddity
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oddities
Literary usage of Oddities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1827)
"... and indelicate in us to say much ; but of our local habitation and our name,
the more that is said the better. The Whim: and oddities. By Thomas Hood. ..."
2. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1826)
"Whims and oddities, in Prose and Verse; with forty Ori- -^ f/inal Designs, by
Thomas Hood. 8vo. p. 146. 10s. 6d. London. Lupton Relfe. 1826. ..."
3. English Eccentrics and Eccentricities by John Timbs (1875)
"oddities of Dowton. William Dowton took his farewell benefit at the Opera House,
... His oddities were very amusing to those who were intimate with him. ..."
4. The World's Best Poetry by Bliss Carman (1904)
"INGENUITIES: oddities. SIEGE OF BELGRADE. AN Austrian army, awfully arrayed,
Boldly by battery besieged Belgrade. Cossack commanders cannonading come, ..."
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