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Definition of Pickaninnies
1. pickaninny [n] - See also: pickaninny
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pickaninnies
Literary usage of Pickaninnies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Story of My Life, Or, The Sunshine and Shadow of Seventy Years by Mary Ashton Rice Livermore (1897)
"... Family Jar — My Visit to the "Negro Quarters" — Black pickaninnies Herded
Together in " Ole Betty's Yard"—Repulsive Quarters — Finding my Way to Matt's ..."
2. The Reminiscences of Augustus Saint-Gaudens by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Homer Saint-Gaudens (1913)
"But when the little pickaninnies didn't take care, the alligators swallowed the
pickaninnies and oranges and all together. When the pickaninnies came in ..."
3. Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture During the Second Session of by United States, Committee on Agriculture, Congress, House (1910)
"... an average of a suicide a month, to the effects coming from a couple of little
pickaninnies shooting craps for pennies in a back alley. Mr. MANDELBAUM. ..."
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