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  • noun nonstandard Plural form of talisman.

Etymologies

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Plural of talisman by erroneous analogy with manmen; compare shamen.

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Examples

  • I’m a geneticist, not a psychiatrist, but at a guess I’d say that this Quinn of yours has become a kind of talismen—you meditate on her, thus removing yourself from the reality of the tests which you don’t want to face.

    Archive 2004-07-01 Holly 2004

  • I’m a geneticist, not a psychiatrist, but at a guess I’d say that this Quinn of yours has become a kind of talismen—you meditate on her, thus removing yourself from the reality of the tests which you don’t want to face.

    insomnia, part 5 Holly 2004

  • Which of the Tory talismen haven't had a hiccup or two along the way?

    Diary 2010

  • The Empire of Villainy, led by Darth Baggins, is merging with the fragile band of weak-minded Banana-eaters, while in possession of a plethora of magic talismen.

    Tallulah Morehead: Survivor: Heroes vs Villains : Banana Wars. 2010

  • The Empire of Villainy, led by Darth Baggins, is merging with the fragile band of weak-minded Banana-eaters, while in possession of a plethora of magic talismen.

    Tallulah Morehead: Survivor: Heroes vs Villains: Banana Wars. 2010

  • The Empire of Villainy, led by Darth Baggins, is merging with the fragile band of weak-minded Banana-eaters, while in possession of a plethora of magic talismen.

    Survivor: Heroes vs Villains : Banana Wars. 2010

  • Or if the physicians would forbid us to pronounce the words pox, gout, rheumatism, and stone, would that expedient serve like so many talismen to destroy the diseases themselves?

    An Argument against Abolishing Christianity 2003

  • A resident devil who had repaired the fence and hung out the talismen to keep the survivors away, a resident christian who had dug a grave and erected a cross above it.

    Two in Time Anderson, Poul 1970

  • He made us love good poems with the passion children give to toys which are not merely companions to them but talismen with which to face the world.

    Taught by Jarrell Seletti, Nancy 1968

  • Soprano, skirts to knees, hurdles into a chair, while Baritono deftly seizes the loose ends of the now visible "lover-knots" and holds aloft the precious talismen.

    The Dead Men's Song Being the Story of a Poem and a Reminiscent Sketch of its Author Young Ewing Allison Champion Ingraham Hitchcock

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