Oddfellow
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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One sideshow player, a heavily tattooed, pierced and bearded strongman who performs as Titano Oddfellow, 45, landed his role by lifting Mr. McDermott with his teeth during his audition and spinning him around.
From New York Times • Mar. 13, 2018
His would-be strongman, a heavily tattooed, pierced and bearded man who performs as Titano Oddfellow, had an idea.
From New York Times • May 19, 2017
No. 3 and No. 4, from two local lodges of Oddfellows, each declaring it to be of the highest importance that I should become an Oddfellow and proposing dates for my initiation.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 25, 1891 by Various
This morning when I went to town for my marketing I met a man who was a Mason, an Oddfellow and an Elk, and who wore the evidences of his various memberships upon his coat.
From Adventures in Friendship by Grayson, David
But the man was an "Oddfellow," and his subscription was nine shillings a quarter, or eightpence halfpenny a week.
From Change in the Village by Sturt, George
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