Lexicographical Neighbors of Tourie
Literary usage of Tourie
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Lowland Scotch: With an Introductory Chapter Onthe Poetry by Charles Mackay (1888)
"From the Flemish, Dutch, and English top; and the Flemish and Dutch loer, French
lourd, heavy; tourie, from the Flemish, toere, round about; the French tour ..."
2. The Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal (1871)
"A favorite mode of dressing the Lair is with the men, to twist it into the shape
of a conical shell, or as the Scotch call it, a tourie. ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1913)
"... m tourie, given last spring by Mrs. Granville Barker at the Kings way Theatre;
here there were moments when the real meaning of the art seemed to have ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1893)
"The ministers will vote to convict," he urged, "and Boghall and Tap-a- tourie
will go with them ; so that you could do no good—even if the shirra were ..."
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