Rubbers
['rʌbɚ]
Examples
- Amy was fretting because her lessons were not learned, and she couldn't find her rubbers. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- They had solemn rubbers of whist, when they went upstairs after drinking, and their carriages were called at half past ten. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Get me my rubbers, and put these slippers with our things. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Tragedies and cravats, poetry and pickles, garden seeds and long letters, music and gingerbread, rubbers, invitations, scoldings, and puppies. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Sedate and solemn were the score of rubbers in which Mr. Pickwick and the old lady played together; uproarious was the mirth of the round table. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- He was winning, but there seemed to be no reason why the renewal of rubbers should end, and Lydgate at last took his leave. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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