Definition of Buskings

1. busking [n] - See also: busking

Lexicographical Neighbors of Buskings

businesswomen
businessworthiness
businessworthy
businessy
busing
busings
busked
busker
buskers
busket
buskets
buskin
buskined
busking
buskings (current term)
buskins
busks
busky
busless
buslike
busload
busloads
busman
busman's holiday
busman's holidays
busmen
buspirone
buspirone hydrochloride
buss

Literary usage of Buskings

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

1. Collections by Massachusetts Historical Society (1846)
"... even to wearing their stockings to their bare skin in two or three houres ; if they be not otherwise well defended with Bootes, or buskings, ..."

2. Original Narratives of Early American History by John Franklin Jameson, American Historical Association (1910)
"... even to wearing their stockings to their bare skin in two or three houres; if they be not otherwise well defended with Bootes, or buskings, ..."

3. English Costume by Dion Clayton Calthrop (1906)
"Pouch-rings, boots, or buskings! Will ye buy any new brooms ? ' New oysters, new oysters! New, new cockles P ' Fresh herrings, ..."

4. The Harleian Miscellany; Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John Malham (1809)
"... and their clothes not touched, and some their stockings and legs burnt and scalded, and their outward buskings not one thread singed. ..."

5. Peter's Letters to His Kinsfolk by John Gibson Lockhart (1820)
"When inclined for a shot, I am up with Aurora, My jacket lies ready—my buskings are brief; I speak not a word at the Manse to the snorer«, Bnt whistle to ..."

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