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Definition of Teeners
1. teener [n] - See also: teener
Lexicographical Neighbors of Teeners
Literary usage of Teeners
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1914)
"The first, the recently rediscovered French Revolution (1791), is in almost
regular four- teeners, and its style, though distorted and over-emphatic, ..."
2. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"... coal 140 Persona. , Putters, «teeners, and loaders 22T Administrative staff
123 Miscellaneous workers 39 Total number of persons employed in colliery. ..."
3. A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts by George Saintsbury (1902)
"... or four- teeners, or complicated rhymed stanzas, or doggerel, or couplet, or
blank verse, or stage prose. The sixteenth century Globe, and the twentieth ..."
4. A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts by George Saintsbury (1902)
"... or four- teeners, or complicated rhymed stanzas, or doggerel, or couplet, or
blank verse, or stage prose. The sixteenth century Globe, and the twentieth ..."
5. A History of English Prosody from the Twelfth Century to the Present Day by George Saintsbury (1908)
"They show, save for special purposes, very little trace of a desire to relapse
into doggerel or four- teeners. They (with the same exception) use couplet ..."
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