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Definition of Chefs
1. chef [v] - See also: chef
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chefs
Literary usage of Chefs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1789)
"chefs. Vol. II. * 8vo. pp. 272. 55. Boards. ... or «Haded to the game; with
anecdotes, in which the game on the chefs-board is introduced. ..."
2. Dictionary of National Biography: From the Earliest Times to 1900 by George Smith, Leslie Stephen, Sidney Lee (1897)
"... are also to some extent autobiographical, though it is difficult to say how
far they are sincere. curiously enough, thought to be ' some of my chefs- ..."
3. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1814)
"... entertainments is their women and their chefs-boards : all communicating in
the former, but the latter is only the ..."
4. The Diary and Letters of Gouverneur Morris: Minister of the United States to by Gouverneur Morris (1888)
"Writes a philippic against the chefs <les republicains. Letter to Robert Morris
on the failure to effect a commercial treaty with Great Britain. ..."
5. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke (1796)
"Thus a company of chefs-men (landing on the fame ... of the chefs-board, where
we left them, ye fay they are all in the fame place, or unmoved ; though ..."
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