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  • noun Plural form of mawning.

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Examples

  • The black town flocked to the depot, with a little of the white at the edges, -- a happy throng, with "Good-mawnings" and "Howdys" and laughing and joking and jostling.

    The Souls of Black Folk 1915

  • The black town flocked to the depot, with a little of the white at the edges, —a happy throng, with “Good-mawnings” and “Howdys” and laughing and joking and jostling.

    XIII. Of the Coming of John. William Edward Burghardt 1903

  • The black town flocked to the depot, with a little of the white at the edges, -- a happy throng, with "Good-mawnings" and "Howdys" and laughing and joking and jostling.

    The Souls of Black Folk 1903

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