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Definition of Potches
1. potche [v] - See also: potche
Lexicographical Neighbors of Potches
Literary usage of Potches
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chapters on Papermaking by Clayton Beadle (1908)
"... net the trouts (he is the original " poacher," whence the name is extended to
those who poach game preserves) ; a washerwoman potches the clothes with a ..."
2. A Book about the Table by John Cordy Jeaffreson (1875)
"... -potches. 2. The continual use of the pot, and the less frequent employment
of the spit. NB—The spit and gridiron were more serviceable in the Roman ..."
3. Chapters on Papermaking by Clayton Beadle (1908)
"... whence the name is extended to those who poach game preserves); a washerwoman
potches the clothes with a dolly or stamper in a dolly- tub in the North; ..."
4. Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society by Hakluyt Society (1888)
"But the word was formerly in use for various medleys or hotch-potches; as for
example, in the Persian Gulf, Dr. Fryer, speaking of the pearl-trade, ..."
5. The Romantic Composers by Daniel Gregory Mason (1906)
"This program, it will at once be seen, is far more favorable to musical treatment
than Berlioz's hotch-potches of petty details and wild, ..."
6. Books in General by John Collings Squire (1921)
"... least nobody can complain that the diction is the diction of pompous oratory,
a charge properly levelled against Mr. Kipling's frequent hotch-potches of ..."
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