Definition of Terribles

1. terrible [n] - See also: terrible

Lexicographical Neighbors of Terribles

terrestrial time
terrestriality
terrestrialize
terrestrialized
terrestrializes
terrestrializing
terrestrially
terrestrials
terrestrious
terret
terrets
terrible
terrible twos
terribleness
terriblenesses
terribles
terribly
terricolae
terricolous
terriculament
terriculaments
terrienniak
terrier
terrierlike
terriers
terries
terrific
terrifical
terrifically
terrifick

Literary usage of Terribles

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

1. The 32nd Division in the World War, 1917-1919 by Wisconsin War History Commission, Michigan War History Commission (1920)
""Les Terribles" Report to General Mangin. HE last tired doughboys sifted out of the front line positions during the forenoon of August 7th, ..."

2. Dictionary of Painters and Engravers: Biographical and Critical by Michael Bryan (1886)
"... Terribles,' ' Les Parents Terribles,' and his ' Maris Vengés ; ' he also illustrated some of Hoffmann's and Schmidt's tales in quite ..."

3. Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1850)
"If he had said, in reference to his own share in them, that they had been vainglorious, it would have been true; but that they were not only ' terribles ..."

4. The Westminster Review by John Chapman, Charles William Wason (1827)
""Je lançais des mots terribles, et c'était à moi surtout qu'ils faisaient peur. ... If his " mots terribles" imposed upon the persons ha feared, ..."

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