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Definition of Pomanders
1. pomander [n] - See also: pomander
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pomanders
Literary usage of Pomanders
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Archaeological Journal by British Archaeological Association (1874)
"NOTES ON pomanders. By RH SODEN-SMITH, MA, PSA A FEW notes respecting the nature
and use of pomanders may not be uninteresting in elucidation of the ..."
2. Gloves, Their Annals and Associations: A Chapter of Trade and Social History by S. William Beck (1883)
"pomanders of a more elaborate kind were made of filigree silver work, ...
They have in physic," writes Lord •Bacon, "use of pomanders and knots of powders ..."
3. Gloves, Their Annals and Associations: A Chapter of Trade and Social History by S. William Beck (1883)
"pomanders of a more elaborate kind were made of filigree silver work, ...
They have in physic," writes Lord Bacon, "use of pomanders and knots of powders ..."
4. The Book of Perfumes by Eugene Rimmel (1867)
"Drayton, in his " Queen of Cynthia," also alludes to pomanders in ... Some of
these pomanders consisted in globular vessels containing strong perfume, ..."
5. Transactions of the Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club by Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club, Hereford, England, G. H. Jack (1888)
"Apples were formerly used as *' pomanders," and we have the term in Shakespeare,
and in Dray ton too, as being worn '' against infectious damps; ..."
6. A Select Collection of Old English Plays by Robert ed Dodsley, William Carew Hazlitt (1874)
"See Ben Jonson's "Every Man out of his Humour," act ii. sc. 4. 3 pomanders were
balls of perfume formerly worn by the higher ranks of people. ..."
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