Word: din
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...battle's din he seems to hear, he wakes...
...din at Two, remember...
SOME one has suggested that those who slept through the din which ushered in the Centennial in Cambridge must have been sound sleepers...
...voice rose o'er the din...
...occurred to us that they could be comprised under a single formula, till we stumbled across a remark in De Bernard's Gerfaut, one of the most worthless of French novels. The clown of the story has a social theory which he is constantly uttering, - that mankind is comprehende din three classes: gentilsh mmes, bourgeois, artistes, and to these he always adds, "et moi, je suis artiste." Gentilhomme, as he uses it, is equivalent to our gentleman, and the meaning of bourgeois must be familiar to every one with the slightest familiarity with French literature. In passing, however...