saxony
noun
a fine, three-ply woolen yarn.
Saxonic
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a word derived from
Saxony.
Example Sentences
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Other books treating of it are the following:— Earle, John: Land Charters and Saxonic Documents, Introduction.
From An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England by Edward Potts Cheyney
Their language, the old Norse, was distinguished from the Alemannic, or High German tongue, and from the Saxonic, or Low German tongue.
From Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology by James Freeman Clarke
There, an institution derived from French and Saxonic sources, but destined to be abortive in France, is developed to an extent unparalleled in any other country.
From A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance by Jean Jules Jusserand
In the eighteenth century arose the Saxonic and Swiss schools of literature, neither of which was devoted to national works.
From The Interdependence of Literature by Georgina Pell Curtis
Many of the followers of Gottsched, disgusted with his pedantry, finally separated themselves from him and formed a new poetical union, called the Second Saxonic School.
From Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities by Anne C. Lynch Botta
