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Definition of Shirrs
1. shirr [v] - See also: shirr
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shirrs
Literary usage of Shirrs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe (1888)
"darts, or shirrs on the bias were too extreme. They were the social X rays, to
use the phrase that had bubbled up into Sherman's own brain. ..."
2. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1884)
"shirrs, and Hitchcock, the late Senator Carpenter, Judges Strong and Faucher,
the late James T. Fields, ..."
3. Some Longer Elizabethan Poems by Arthur Henry Bullen (1903)
"... unto the Chief Officers shirrs... 44. SUM COLLECTED...^80000. for the Second
Year, which is (Continual from of With the Second Year's receipt the Chief ..."
4. The Harleian Miscellany: Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John Malham (1810)
"... in the times of danger and extremity of weather: here were no musters. ordered,
nor lieutenants of shirrs to raise new armies: here was no supplement ..."
5. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1850)
"... where, having stripped themselves at the goal to their shirrs and drawers,
they begin the course, every one having ;n his eye a particular man at which ..."
6. Hakluytus Posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"... of shirrs, Cushions, and other such furniture made of Cloth, possessing almost
as many Shops as the former. Then follow those that make Womens Girdles ..."
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