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Miniver

noun
1.
Trimming on ceremonial robes consisting of white or light grey fur.





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"Miniver" Quotes from Famous Books



... Old Queen Gwiniver. For 'Queen Gwiniver' applied as a term of abuse to an old woman cf. Dekker's Satiromastix, or, The Untrussing of the Humorous Poet (4to 1602), III, i, where Tucca rallying Mistress Miniver cries: 'Now, now, mother Bunch, how dost thou? what, dost frowne, Queen Gwyniver, dost wrinckle?' The reference is, of course, to ...
— The Works of Aphra Behn - Volume IV. • Aphra Behn
... and they tiptoed out. But Julie did waken half an hour later, as it happened, and screamed for company for ten hideous minutes. Then Miss Flossie Miniver, a young woman who had recently rented the top floor, and of whom Emeline and the other ladies of the house disapproved, came downstairs and softly entered the Page flat, and gathered the sobbing little girl to her warm, soft breast. Miss Miniver soothed her with ...
— The Story Of Julia Page - Works of Kathleen Norris, Volume V. • Kathleen Norris


Words linked to "Miniver" :   trim, passementerie, trimming


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