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Definition of Platters
1. platter [n] - See also: platter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Platters
Literary usage of Platters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts by Massachusetts County Court (Essex County), George Francis Dow (1921)
"They were found guilty, fined, and ordered to return Dodge's platters.* Richard
Hutten,f aged about fifty-nine years, deposed that before he attached John ..."
2. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"... roasted and on platters placed, Patroclus took and set upon the board The
bread in woven baskets ; but the meats With his own hand Achilles parted out; ..."
3. Chronicles of the Canongate by Walter Scott (1827)
"trembled again, and the very platters on the bink clattered against each other.
" Well done, Harry"—" Give it him home, Harry"—" Take care of him now—he ..."
4. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"... the Kings brother, invited him to his house, where hee welcommed him with as
many platters of Bread, Fowle and wilde Beasts, ..."
5. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"... the Kings brother, invited him to his house, where hee welcommed him with as
many platters of Bread, Fowle and wilde Beasts, ..."
6. A Bibliographical and Critical Account of the Rarest Books in the English by John Payne Collier (1866)
"... of the old wives platters." We more than suspect that Spenser's" Mother
Hubbard's Tale " had been objected to, and that it was not allowed, ..."
7. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"... the Kings brother, invited him to his house, where hee welcommed him with as
many platters of Bread, Fowle and wilde Beasts, ..."
8. The Jonson Allusion-Book: A Collection of Allusions to Ben Jonson from 1597-1700 by Jesse Franklin Bradley, Joseph Quincy Adams (1922)
"The repast was served upon glass plates or dishes and at the first assault they
upset the table and the crash of glass platters reminded me precisely of a ..."
9. Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts by Massachusetts County Court (Essex County), George Francis Dow (1921)
"They were found guilty, fined, and ordered to return Dodge's platters.* Richard
Hutten,f aged about fifty-nine years, deposed that before he attached John ..."
10. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"... roasted and on platters placed, Patroclus took and set upon the board The
bread in woven baskets ; but the meats With his own hand Achilles parted out; ..."
11. Chronicles of the Canongate by Walter Scott (1827)
"trembled again, and the very platters on the bink clattered against each other.
" Well done, Harry"—" Give it him home, Harry"—" Take care of him now—he ..."
12. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"... the Kings brother, invited him to his house, where hee welcommed him with as
many platters of Bread, Fowle and wilde Beasts, ..."
13. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"... the Kings brother, invited him to his house, where hee welcommed him with as
many platters of Bread, Fowle and wilde Beasts, ..."
14. A Bibliographical and Critical Account of the Rarest Books in the English by John Payne Collier (1866)
"... of the old wives platters." We more than suspect that Spenser's" Mother
Hubbard's Tale " had been objected to, and that it was not allowed, ..."
15. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"... the Kings brother, invited him to his house, where hee welcommed him with as
many platters of Bread, Fowle and wilde Beasts, ..."
16. The Jonson Allusion-Book: A Collection of Allusions to Ben Jonson from 1597-1700 by Jesse Franklin Bradley, Joseph Quincy Adams (1922)
"The repast was served upon glass plates or dishes and at the first assault they
upset the table and the crash of glass platters reminded me precisely of a ..."
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