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  • noun Plural form of puy.

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Examples

  • We met a whole fleet of these keels as we came up, working their way down with their "puys" or oars.

    A Yacht Voyage Round England William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

  • It is that time of the year when the PG forums are haunted by (apart from the MBA aspirant types) another kind of puys - Business School Professors from the Admission Committees!

    unknown title 2009

  • It may at the close of an eruption cool down so completely that a lake can form within it, such as Lake Averno, near Naples; or it may long remain a seething sea of lava, such as Kilauea; or the lava may find one or more outlets from it, either by welling over its rim, which it will then generally break down, as in many of the small extinct volcanoes ( "puys") of

    The San Francisco calamity by earthquake and fire Charles Morris 1877

  • [Footnote: 'J'ay pendant ma vie donné tant de tesmoignages de ma valeur et vertu militaire que je ne puys meshuy mourir sans honneur et ne puys fuir sans fère brèche à la réputation que j'ay acquise par tant de travaux; mais vous mon filz qui portés icy vos premières armes, la fuitte ne vous peut apporter aucune infamie, ny la mort beaucoup de gloire.']

    Two Summers in Guyenne Edward Harrison Barker 1885

  • The members of the academic _puys_ were succeeded by the members of guilds, or _confréries_, or _sociétés joyeuses_.

    A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. Edward Dowden 1878

  • Literary societies or _puys_ [1] were instituted, which maintained the rules of art, and awarded crowns to successful competitors in poetry; a formal ingenuity replaced lyrical inspiration; poetry accepted proudly the name of "rhetoric."

    A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. Edward Dowden 1878

  • I as a part of the PG fraternity would like to tender my apologies to the Prof and puys IIT-M is a good b-school, how good it actually is let us leave that question to time.

    PaGaLGuY.com - India's biggest website for MBA in India, International MBA, CAT, XAT, SNAP, MAT Shivangi Narayan 2010

  • Silly mistakes we did in CAT 2008Silly mistakes we did in CAT 2008To all puys!

    unknown title 2009

  • Originally Posted by devgargi29 hello seniors, puys

    unknown title 2009

  • Re: Happy Holi PuysRe: Happy Holi PuysWishing all you puys a very HaPpY hoLi Re: Happy Holi PuysRe: Happy Holi PuysWish all of my fellow puys a very happy holi ..!!

    unknown title 2009

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