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bearess
noun 2
Collocations
5ADJ.
poor
VERB + BEARESS
bear, ring
BEARESS + NOUN
larry
PREP.
along
ADV.
heavily
Definitions
noun
1
Synonym of she-bear.
See, farther, two every-day figures sitting faithfully together like a pair of turtle doves, or a bear and his bearess.[…]The poor horse drew Bear and his Bearess heavily along.
They praised her spirit, and now and then, / The Nurse brought her own little “nevy” Ben, / To play with the future May’ress, / And when he got raps, and taps, and slaps, / Scratches, and pinches, snips, and snaps, / As if from a Tigress or Bearess, / They told him how Lords would court that hand, / And always gave him to understand, / While he rubb’d, poor soul, / His carroty poll, / That his hair had been pull’d by “a Hairess.”
noun
1
A female bearer.
As it is the only spirit I possess I heed his advice and bring it back to the hotel to find the entire force standing at attention, ready to receive me. I pass on to my room with a procession of bearers and bearesses strung out behind me like the tail of a kite, anything from a tea-tray to the sugar tongs being sufficient excuse for joining the parade.
Ring bearer and bearess were Larry and Mary Lynn Ayers, Springfield, Va., nephew and niece of the bridegroom.
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See, farther, two every-day figures sitting faithfully together like a pair of turtle doves, or a bear and his bearess.[…]The poor horse drew Bear and his Bearess heavily along.
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They praised her spirit, and now and then, / The Nurse brought her own little “nevy” Ben, / To play with the future May’ress, / And when he got raps, and taps, and slaps, / Scratches, and pinches, sni
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For whatever may have been the case with regard to the eminent artiste, there can be no doubt that his keeper, manager, or lessee, was himself an essentially vulgar fellow: by praising what he conside
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As it is the only spirit I possess I heed his advice and bring it back to the hotel to find the entire force standing at attention, ready to receive me. I pass on to my room with a procession of beare
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Ring bearer and bearess were Larry and Mary Lynn Ayers, Springfield, Va., nephew and niece of the bridegroom.
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Some aggressively degenerate Chinese emperors and noblemen used to make a spectacle of their comely female sedan-chair bearers. (Perhaps properly: bearesses or she-bears or bearpersons.)
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