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  • noun Plural form of charmer.

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Examples

  • Even so-called natural "charmers" don't just magically have interesting things to talk about all the time.

    How To Schmooze Without Being Fake Debra Shigley 2010

  • In Isa. 19: 3 the word "charmers" is the rendering of the Hebrew

    Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897

  • Basically just a bunch of snakes in cages and a highly overrated (and frankly, bad) show where the snake 'charmers' played around with snakes and pretended to throw them in people's faces.

    TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010

  • They use those little snake charmers in Alaska to put out the lights on trophy Halibut.

    Fun Guns 2009

  • They use those little snake charmers in Alaska to put out the lights on trophy Halibut.

    Fun Guns 2009

  • "We have been going around the world trying to portray the country in a good light — away from the idea that it's a land of snake charmers," he said.

    India Seeks Positive Spin With Games Kickoff Amol Sharma 2010

  • As part of the Kennedy Center's Maximum India festival, Gulabo Sapera dances Kalbelia, a celebratory style traditionally performed by snake charmers.

    Free and Easy: Fashion Photography and Persian New Year 2011

  • If you are going to walk the walk, you need to talk the talk of these undead charmers.

    Five Great Zombie Gifts | myFiveBest 2009

  • As part of the Kennedy Center's Maximum India festival, Gulabo Sapera dances Kalbelia, a celebratory style traditionally performed by snake charmers.

    Free and Easy: Fashion Photography and Persian New Year 2011

  • Imagine Jacques-Louis David's purposeful, besandaled Romans, swords upraised, swearing to do something noble, versus Jean-Honoré Fragonard's giggling charmers on swings, all fluttering petticoats and indolence.

    Drawn to Revolution Karen Wilkin 2011

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