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Definition of Pastimes
1. pastime [n] - See also: pastime
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pastimes
Literary usage of Pastimes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages, and During the by P. L. Jacob (1876)
""We shall give a rapid sketch of the different kinds of games and pastimes which
were most in fashion during the Middle Ages and to the end of the sixteenth ..."
2. A survey of London by John Stow (1842)
"LET us now," saith Fitzstephen, " come to the sports and pastimes, ... But London,
for the shows upon theatres, and comical pastimes, hath holy plays, ..."
3. English Prose and Verse from Beowulf to Stevenson by Henry Spackman Pancoast (1915)
"Of late time, in place "Let us now," saith Fitzstephen,1 "come to20 tragedies,
interludes, and histories, both true the sports and pastimes, seeing that it ..."
4. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1910)
"CHAPTER XVII Writers on Country Pursuits and pastimes GERVASE MARKHAM WHILE the
great Elizabethan writers were producing poems, plays and other masterpieces ..."
5. The Health Exhibition Literature (1884)
"The Chinese pastimes, beyond tea drinking, tobacco smoking, fan plying, ...
In the pastimes mentioned above, adults for the most part find occupation. ..."
6. The History of England by James Mackintosh, William Wallace, Robert Bell (1835)
"On his arrival in London, he ordained and promulgated a minute code of lawful
sports and pastimes for the people, on festival and sabbath days. ..."
7. The Health Exhibition Literature. (1884)
"The Chinese pastimes, beyond tea drinking, tobacco smoking, fan plying, ...
In the pastimes mentioned above, adults for the most part find occupation. ..."
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