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- noun A
fig farm or orchard.
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Examples
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I often have the most beautiful notions scampering through my head with the grace, but alas! the swiftness too, of kittens, especially just before I get asleep; but they're all lost for the want of a trap; an intellectual figgery four.
The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 Various
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Thus, my dear, coquettes of your fascinating sex cover their persons with figgery, fantastically arranged, and call their masquerading, modesty.
The Second Funeral of Napoleon William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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Give me your figgery-four Squire, I'll go in up to the handle for you.
The Attaché; or, Sam Slick in England — Volume 01 Thomas Chandler Haliburton 1830
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Give me your figgery-four Squire, I'll go in up to the handle for you.
The Attaché; or, Sam Slick in England — Complete Thomas Chandler Haliburton 1830
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