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Definition of Sundowners
1. sundowner [n] - See also: sundowner
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sundowners
Literary usage of Sundowners
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Colonial Tramp: Travels and Adventures in Australia and New Guinea by Hume Nisbet (1896)
"... Church—The Bullock Driver —A Gentleman Selector's Paradise—Beaconsfield House
and the Dandenongs — Weary sundowners, a Theory — Farewell to Victoria. ..."
2. The Boy Travellers in Australasia: Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey to by Thomas Wallace Knox (1889)
"sundowners. IN their search for knowledge Frank and Fred made many inquiries
relative to the profits of cattle-raising in Australia, and the chances of ..."
3. The "new Chum" in Australia, Or, The Scenery, Life, and Manners of by Percy Clarke (1886)
"sundowners.—" Old hands " and " Roustabouts."—Rain at Last.—Spirits Within and
Water Without. 9 ' UMBLE out there," says my friend the squatter, ..."
4. The Gentleman's Magazine (1897)
"These travellers are known as " sundowners," for it is at sundown they always
appear on ... In the great colonial corps of sundowners, men from almost all ..."
5. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases and Usages with by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"They swell the noble army of swag- men or sundowners, who are chiefly the fearful
human wrecks which the ebbing tide of mining industry has left stranded in ..."
6. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases, and Usages by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"143: " They swell the noble army of swag- men or sundowners, who arc chiefly the
fearful human wrecks which the ebbing tide of mining industry has ..."
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