Definition of Chere

1. dear [adj] - See also: dear

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chere

chequered flag
chequered flags
chequered skipper
chequered skippers
chequeredness
chequering
chequers
chequerwise
chequerwork
chequerworks
cheques
chequing
chequing account
chequy
cher
chere (current term)
chereme
cheremes
cheremic
cheremnykhite
cherepanovite
cherimolla
cherimoya
cherimoya tree
cherimoyas
cherimoyer
cherimoyers
cherish
cherishable
cherished

Literary usage of Chere

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

1. History of the Indians of Connecticut from the Earliest Known Period to 1850 by John William De Forest (1853)
"Like the other Indians, chere disliked Mr. Boardman's teachings, ... One day, Sherman Boardman, the son of the minister, observed chere and another Indian ..."

2. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"His person, his aray, his looke, his chere. His goodly manner, and his gentillesse, fe well, that never sith that she was borne, N'e had she suche routh of ..."

3. The Middle English Ideal of Personal Beauty: As Found in the Metrical by Walter Clyde Curry (1916)
"803 ; ' chere . . . goodly,' Gener. 146 ; ' semblant soft and stabile,' Iw. & Gaw. ... 115; 'sorrowful chere,' Sc. Leg. 16. 468; 'sad cher,' Boc. n. ..."

4. Ryme-index to the Manuscript Texts of Chaucer's Minor Poems by Walter William Skeat, Geoffrey Chaucer (1889)
"386/2403. here, adv. chere, n. obi. 348/1741. dere, adj. 380/2296. dere, adj. vo<: 400/2632. dere, adv. 270/372. in feore, adv. 342/1643. manere, n. obi. ..."

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