Etymology
Origin of plowboy
Example Sentences
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Steel Hour before making his theater debut with the 1962 play Who’ll Save the Plowboy?, which won an Obie Award.
From Time • Sep. 13, 2015
Billed as "the Tennessee Plowboy," unsponsored Eddy Arnold strums a guitar, beats out songs like Moonlight & Roses in country rhythm, and gets informal support from an earnest, shiny-faced trio called the Dickens Sisters.
From Time Magazine Archive
Off Broadway Who'll Save the Plowboy?, by Frank D. Gilroy, slices close to the center of three lives that war, marriage and illusions have haphazardly drawn together.
From Time Magazine Archive
Who'll Save the Plowboy?, by Frank D. Gilroy, slices close to the center of three lives that war, marriage and illusions have haphazardly drawn together.
From Time Magazine Archive
The glimmer of satiric yet benevolent humour that was never long absent from her eyes, lightened there again, as she rolled and lit a "Plowboy."
From Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative by Kemp, Harry
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