Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
thrum , 6.
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Examples
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It was the old "hoyting girl" spirit still alive in her which prompted her to borrow the cabin boy's blue thrum-cap and tarred coat for half
Memoirs of Lady Fanshawe, Wife of Sir Richard Fanshawe, bart., ambassador from Charles the Second to the courts of Portugal and Madrid. Anne Harrison Fanshawe 1652
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a greasy flannel dressing-gown, his head into a thrum-cap, the cap into
Jack Sheppard A Romance William Harrison Ainsworth 1843
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