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- noun
lich-wake
Etymologies
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Examples
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Thy late-wake was sung by Macdiarmid's fair daughters;
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 Various
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Thy late-wake was sung by MacDiarmid's fair daughters;
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873 Various
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Dame Gourlay, with two of her contemporaries, the same who assisted at Alice's late-wake, seated apart upon a flat monument, or "through-stane," sate enviously comparing the shares which had been allotted to them in dividing the dole.
The Bride of Lammermoor Walter Scott 1801
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Dame Gourlay, with two of her contemporaries, the same who assisted at Alice’s late-wake, seated apart upon a flat monument, or “through-stane,” sate enviously comparing the shares which had been allotted to them in dividing the dole.
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