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Definition of Nacres

1. nacre [n] - See also: nacre

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nacres

Literary usage of Nacres

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

1. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Charles Robert Cross (1861)
"I know one fact that you also know: that of two streams producing identically the same species, one will give a large proportion of white nacres, ..."

2. Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Wm Ripley Nichols, Charles R Cross (1861)
"I know one fact that you also know : that of two streams producing identically the same species, one will give a large proportion of white nacres, ..."

3. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, Charles Robert Cross, John Trowbridge, Samuel Kneeland, George Bliss (1861)
"I know one fact that you also know: that of two streams producing identically the same species, one will give a large proportion of white nacres, ..."

4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Auteur, nacres et ecclésiastique,, XII literary labours. In 845 he was reconciled with the Alcuin and the Rise of Christian Schools (New York, 1892), ..."

5. Sea Power in Its Relations to the War of 1812 by Alfred Thayer Mahan (1905)
"... and the pride of the country fixed, not upon those points which the attentive seaman can recognize as giving warrant for 1 nacres' Defence before the ..."

6. The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature: Containing an Account of by William Thomas Lowndes (1864)
"... containing plain and easy Directions for spelling and reading English, &c. with a brief and true Account of the bloody Persecutions, Mas- nacres, Plots, ..."

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