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Definition of Guisers
1. guiser [n] - See also: guiser
Lexicographical Neighbors of Guisers
Literary usage of Guisers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Carmina Gadelica: Hymns and Incantations with Illustrative Notes on Words by Alexander Carmichael, James Carmichael Watson, Angus Matheson (1900)
"The guisers are dressed in very long white linen shirts, and in very tall white
... These guisers represent crowned kings and queens, popes, cardinals, ..."
2. Yorkshire Folk-talk: With Characteristics of Those who Speak it in the North by Marmaduke Charles Frederick Morris (1892)
"No mell supper can take place without dancing, and formerly the advent of' guisers'
formed one of the great features of the entertainment. ..."
3. The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the by Robert Chambers (1832)
"The common reward of this entertainment is a halfpenny, but many churlish persons
fall upon the unfortunate guisers, and beat them out of the house. ..."
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