Definition of Pereiras

1. pereira [n] - See also: pereira

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pereiras

peregrinators
peregrine
peregrine-falcon
peregrine falcon
peregrine falcons
peregrines
peregrinities
peregrinity
peregrins
pereia
pereion
pereions
pereiopod
pereiopods
pereira
pereiras (current term)
perelles
perempt
perempted
perempting
peremption
peremptions
peremptorily
peremptoriness
peremptory
perempts
perencephaly
perendinate
perendinated
perendinates

Literary usage of Pereiras

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of a Few Months Residence in Portugal and Glimpses of the South of Spain by Dorothy (Wordsworth) Quillinan (1846)
"We were told that it was occupied by lineal descendants of those pereiras whom old Gil Vicente describes. " They are thorough-bred nobles and good cavaliers ..."

2. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1886)
"The pereiras have found a place in the history of African exploration. ... The pedigree of tho pereiras given by Father Courtois does not quite tally with ..."

3. Vocabulary of the English & Portuguese Languages = Novo Vocabularis Das by William R. Esher (1867)
"Os Silvas e os pereiras são numerosos na Bahia. (The Silvas and the pereiras are numerous in Bahia). ..."

4. Biographical Memoirs by National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) (1895)
"... the De Piva pereiras, was a woman of marked character and ability, and his earliest years were spent in an atmosphere of the highest scientific culture ..."

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