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- noun Plural form of
simperer .
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Examples
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Nancy had ever read -- sell a number of copies of it that seemed absurdly small in proportion to the population of America -- and then they could live where they pleased and Oliver could compose Great Works and Nancy get ahead with her very real and delicate talent for etching instead of having to do fashion-drawings of slinky simperers in Lucile dresses or appetite-arousing paintings of great cans of tomato soup.
Young People's Pride Stephen Vincent Ben��t 1920
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How the simperers would sheer off; the tea that night might as well be made of aqua-fortis.
Charlemont; Or, the Pride of the Village. a Tale of Kentucky William Gilmore Simms 1838
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How she would startle the dull, insipid, tea-table simperers on our Helicon -- nay, with what scorn she would traverse the Helicon itself.
Charlemont; Or, the Pride of the Village. a Tale of Kentucky William Gilmore Simms 1838
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