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Definition of Stopgaps
1. stopgap [n] - See also: stopgap
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stopgaps
Literary usage of Stopgaps
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of Philology by William George Clark, William Aldis Wright, Ingram Bywater, John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor, Henry Jackson (1904)
"METRICAL stopgaps IN STATIUS' THEBAID. The havoc wrought in classical texts by
... Metrical stopgaps ' is nowhere better illustrated than in the Thebaid. ..."
2. The Queen of Sicily and Gothic Stained Glass in Mussy and Tonnerre by Meredith P. Lillich (1998)
"... wholesale nineteenth-century replacements and the hodge-podge of stopgaps that
had accumulated in the borders even before ..."
3. Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign by James Wood (1893)
"Moral prejudices are the stopgaps of virtue ; and, as is the case with other
stopgaps, it is often more difficult to get either out or in through them than ..."
4. Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern English and Foreign Sources by James Wood (1899)
"Moral prejudices are the stopgaps of virtue ; and. as is the ... with other
stopgaps, it is often more difficult to get either out or in through them than ..."
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