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- noun Plural form of
firstcomer .
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Examples
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Another rush of feet, and another company flits over the hill towards us, but they bear coal-black shields, and the drooping plumes are black as night; they fall into position next the firstcomers, and take up the chant.
Cetywayo and his White Neighbours Remarks on Recent Events in Zululand, Natal, and the Transvaal Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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The firstcomers obtained their land on very easy terms, some of them at
British Borneo Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan, and North Borneo 1884
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