offscourings
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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They immediately built a theater, which cost them seven thousand dollars, and employed a company of actors, the offscourings of maratime city theaters.
From The History of Louisville, from the Earliest Settlement till the Year 1852 by Casseday, Ben
There were also present one or two reporters, and a posse of the offscourings of Stoneleigh small-boydom.
From The Right Stuff Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton by Hay, Ian
The "offscourings" of London, which the companies carried rather more to the southward than the northward with us, were hardly scoured off in Whitechapel, which was a decent enough ancestral source for any American strain.
From London Films by Howells, William Dean
To be disgusted with them, to allow them to disturb our serenity, is as though a painter should sicken at the odour of his pigments and the offscourings of his palette.
From The Silent Isle by Benson, Arthur Christopher
The offscourings of the Canadian frontier were drifting back into their native country to settle.
From The Barrier by Beach, Rex Ellingwood
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