Lexicographical Neighbors of Stirabouts
Literary usage of Stirabouts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Men of Science: Their Nature and Nurture by Sir Francis Galton (1875)
"... to a time-honored family recipe, but he produced nothing except thick pastes
or stirabouts of different degrees of lumpiness, revolting to the sight. ..."
2. English Men of Science: Their Nature and Nurture by Francis Galton (1895)
"... to a time-honored family recipe, but he produced nothing except thick pastes
or stirabouts of different degrees of lumpiness, revolting to the sight. ..."
3. English Men of Science: Their Nature and Nurture by Francis Galton (1875)
"... own chambers a plum-pudding according to a time-honored family recipe, but he
produced nothing except thick pastes or stirabouts of different degrees of ..."
4. English Men of Science: Their Nature and Nurture by Francis Galton (1890)
"... to a time-honored family recipe, but he produced nothing except thick pastes
or stirabouts of different degrees of lumpiness, revolting to the sight. ..."
5. A Book about the Table by John Cordy Jeaffreson (1875)
"... were served in stews, hashes, and " stirabouts." Another thing to be observed
in these ancient menus is the distinction drawn between flesh-feasts and ..."
6. Barbara Rebell by Belloc Lowndes (1907)
"... all good faith disliked that feminine type which plays in politics the part
of francs-tireurs—he called them by the less agreeable name of "stirabouts. ..."
7. The Wilderness by Thomas Bailey Clegg (1907)
"Boys " were working in the midst of a cloud of vapour, stirring up the boiling
juice in the batteries with long handled stirabouts. The whole scene was one ..."
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