Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kind of large-sized barrel-pen: a trade-name.
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Examples
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The magnum-bonum plums answer for this preserve better than any other kind of plum.
The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861
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The magnum-bonum plums answer for this preserve better than any other kind of plum.
The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861
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This fruit seemed to be of the plum species, of an oblong form, and a good deal larger than the magnum-bonum plum.
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The runner sinks into a 'rut,' and that makes the company bow to each other, and gives that old rascal of a sexegenarian an excuse to bring his gray whiskers very near to the blooming visage of a girl whose charming modesty is shrined in colors more delicate than the blush on the cheek of a magnum-bonum plum.
The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, April 1844 Volume 23, Number 4 Various 1840
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