¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Eggars
1. eggar [n] - See also: eggar
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eggars
Literary usage of Eggars
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1904)
"Conrad, Joseph. »$1.50 net. . Harper. Novels made from popular plays.
See advertisement. JS Ogilvie. Notes from an Indian garden. eggars. Pott. Noyes, Ella. ..."
2. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... to the densely woven cocoon of the silkworms (Bombycidae and Saturniidae) or
the hard shell-like covering of the eggars (Lasiocampidae). ..."
3. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1898)
"I confess, with regard to the l>eggars, that I have never yet had the slightest
sentiment of compassion for the very oldest or dirtiest of them, ..."
Other Resources:
