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Definition of Nannas
1. nanna [n] - See also: nanna
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nannas
Literary usage of Nannas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine (1896)
"... WAY TO nannas. goods to Shetland six generations past. Never before had David
seen a face so expressionless. It was like a scroll made unreadable by the ..."
2. American Ornithology: Or The Natural History of the Birds of the United States by Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte, Robert Jameson, George Ord, William Maxwell Hetherington (1831)
"Two years since, it fell to our lot to describe, and apply the name of ultramarine
jay, (Gamins ultra- •nannas,) to a species found in Mexico, ..."
3. 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 (1865)
"More albumen was also secreted, but M. nannas states that this w;is of small
consequence compared with the benefit resulting from a greater elimination of ..."
4. The Earth and Its Inhabitants by Élisée Reclus (1892)
"Officials who marry native women bring up their children with great care, and in
the second generation the " nannas " or half-caste women are regarded as ..."
5. Home Life Under the Stuarts, 1603-1649 by Jessie Bedford (1903)
"... faster in the last fifty years than in the four or five half-centuries preceding,
as we realise when we read of the Nans and nannas of Stuart nurseries. ..."
6. Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians by Theodore Baker (1919)
"56; nannas Klage, op. 59; Psalm 116, for 4-part ch. a capp., op. 34; Psalm 94,
for soli, double ch., org. and orch., op. ..."
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