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Definition of Argots
1. argot [n] - See also: argot
Lexicographical Neighbors of Argots
Literary usage of Argots
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Language and Languages: Being "Chapters on Language" and "Families of Speech" by Frederic William Farrar (1878)
"... of our view in certain languages of modern invention, to which we shall again
allude. I mean the various argots of the dangerous classes throughout ..."
2. Chapters on Language by Frederic William Farrar (1865)
"I mean the various argots of the dangerous classes throughout Europe. These languages
have to fulfil the opposite conditions of being distinct to those who ..."
3. Census of India, 1901 by India Census Commissioner, Sir Herbert Hope Risley (1902)
"Trade argots.—Our information regarding the trade argots is not at all complete
... Some of the words are These trade argots appear to be allied to the true ..."
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