Definition of Firesides

1. Noun. (plural of fireside) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Firesides

1. fireside [n] - See also: fireside

Lexicographical Neighbors of Firesides

firers
fires
fires away
fires off
fires up
firesale
firescorched
fireset
firesets
firesetting behaviour
fireships
fireside
fireside chat
fireside chats
firesides
firest
firestarter
firestarters
firestick
firestick farming
firesticks
firestone
firestones
firestop
firestops
firestorm
firestorms
firestriker
firestrikers

Literary usage of Firesides

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1866)
"able determination to defend their altars and their firesides till the last votary of freedom falls around them. In the House on Nov. ..."

2. Review of Historical Publications Relating to Canada by University of Toronto (1900)
"Famous Firesides of French Canada,^ by Mary Wilson Allo- way, is pleasantly written gossip about old buildings and events in Canadian history ..."

3. Home Life in France by Matilda Betham-Edwards (1905)
"CHAPTER XXXII FICTION AND Firesides " T~>vO Frenchmen ever work ?" once a clever English I 1 friend asked me. "According to novels, the 1 J only occupation ..."

4. Eminent British Lawyers by Henry Roscoe (1830)
"... of the gospel and judges of the land stimulating the work of persecution, until, at last, in its progress, its desolations reached their own firesides. ..."

5. My First Holiday; Or, Letters Home from Colorado, Utah, and California. by Caroline Wells Healey Dall (1881)
"... winter, with its firesides, its vocations, and its Christmas joys. California offers a series of monotonies, and although I observed that there as here ..."

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