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- noun Plural form of
dearborn .
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Examples
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In April 1830, a caravan of ten wagons and two dearborns left St. Louis and crossed to rendezvous in the Rocky Mountains.
THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007
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Our town beauties -- ay, the most fashionable and elegant of them -- think nothing of installing themselves, with their newly wedded husbands, in the aforesaid dearborns, and moving off to the far west, leaving behind them all the comforts and luxuries among which they have been brought up.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 Various
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His carriage-house contained three splendid coaches, three or four gigs, besides dearborns and barouches of the most fashionable style.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass 1856
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His carriage-house contained three splendid coaches, three or four gigs, besides dearborns and barouches of the most fashionable style.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave 1845
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His carriage-house contained three splendid coaches, three or four gigs, besides dearborns and barouches of the most fashionable style.
Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave, 1845
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