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Definition of Pumpions
1. pumpion [n] - See also: pumpion
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pumpions
Literary usage of Pumpions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1812)
"They often boil pumpions in water, and afterwards eat them, either alone or ...
As foon as the cold weather commences, they take off all the pumpions that ..."
2. Scientific Papers of Asa Gray by Asa Gray (1889)
"Captain John Smith says that the Indians of Virginia (1606-8) " plant amongst
their corn pumpions, and a fruit like unto a musk-melon, but less and worse, ..."
3. Publications by Musical Antiquarian Society (1844)
"Surrey. Frendes, masters, countrymen Mayer. Peace, how,3 peace ! I charg you,
keep the peace ! (Shro. My maisters, countrymen 1 pumpions] ie pumpkins. ..."
4. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"A Corn- countrie, Beanes, pumpions, and Grapes. ... that which they had, to wit,
Corne, Tabacco, Beanes and pumpions, which they distributed here and there. ..."
5. Scientific Papers of Asa Gray by Asa Gray, Charles Sprague Sargent (1889)
"... is of the form of our pumpions — I must confess, nothing so good, — 't is of
a more waterish taste," and he mentions also the ..."
6. An Itinerary Containing His Ten Yeeres Travell Through the Twelve Dominions by Fynes Moryson (1908)
"... have excellent of Fruites. many kindes, and in great quantity, namely Abricots,
and muske Melones, and divers kinds of pumpions, whereof one called ..."
7. An Itinerary Containing His Ten Yeeres Travell Through the Twelve Dominions by Fynes Moryson (1908)
"... have excellent of Fruita. many kindes, and in great quantity, namely Abricots,
and muske Melones, and divers kinds of pumpions, whereof one called ..."
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