Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who beckons or calls by signs.
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- noun One who, or that which,
beckons .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Our beckoning with the finger moved towards the beckoner makes the so-beckoned Eastern depart in all haste.
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‘Without the same queen beckoner too!’ he added presently; ‘and there is pride there, not to be forgotten — witness our own acquaintance!’
Dombey and Son 2007
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A roomy, stately place for those whose lives move easily in such surroundings; for Ippolita, the girl of the people, happy in her dark tenement in the Vicolo, gossip of the upper windows, shy beckoner to the street, burnisher of doorposts at sundown -- for Ippolita this windy great house was a prison, neither more nor less.
Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso Maurice Henry Hewlett
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This invitation might or might not be a genuine one, for sometimes the player on responding was received by the beckoner with hisses and other symptoms of distaste, and fell back ignominiously on the main body.
The Right Stuff Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton Ian Hay 1914
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At the present moment Phillis was beckoner, while Dolly, Dermott, and the Admiral stood meekly in line awaiting selection.
The Right Stuff Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton Ian Hay 1914
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Lord James hastily focussed his glasses upon the beckoner.
Out of the Primitive Robert Ames Bennet 1912
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How strange, how amazing, to reflect that from all parts of London, from their doubtless important avocations, one unseen, mysterious beckoner had brought all these men here together, to this sordid place, on this bitterly cold, dreary day.
The Lodger Marie Belloc Lowndes 1907
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She paused an instant to collect herself, and then went softly toward the bony beckoner.
Eight Cousins Louisa May Alcott 1860
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The sitter arose and walked out quietly, and went with the beckoner and looked in at the lid, and saw what had once been a boy with soft eyes and tender heart.
Trumps George William Curtis 1858
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Our beckoning with the finger moved towards the beckoner makes the so-beckoned Eastern depart in all haste.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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