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Definition of Tittivates
1. tittivate [v] - See also: tittivate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tittivates
Literary usage of Tittivates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Knickerbocker; Or, New York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew, Timothy Flint, Washington Irving (1862)
"broidered with the colored quills of a porcupine, which has ceased to fret; he
tittivates his flat nose with the largest brass ring obtainable; he illumines ..."
2. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo by Richard Francis Burton (1876)
"Here also the mistress smooths her locks, rumpled by the night, " tittivates "
her macaw-crest with the bodkin, and anoints her hair and skin with a ..."
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