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Synonyms for tattoos

Grammar : Noun
Spell : ta-too
Phonetic Transcription : tæˈtu


Définition of tattoos

Origin :
  • "signal," 1680s, "signal calling soldiers or sailors to quarters at night," earlier tap-to (1644, in order of Col. Hutchinson to garrison of Nottingham), from Dutch taptoe, from tap "faucet of a cask" (see tap (n.1)) + toe "shut." So called because police used to visit taverns in the evening to shut off the taps of casks. Transferred sense of "drumbeat" is recorded from 1755. Hence, Devil's tattoo "action of idly drumming fingers in irritation or impatience" (1803).
  • noun design on the skin
  • noun continuous drumming
Example sentences :
  • How much did yer say it would corst to take them tattoos orf?
  • Extract from : « 500 of the Best Cockney War Stories » by Various
  • Parole I rather think is Dutch, and has something to do with the tattoos of the garrisons.
  • Extract from : « The Deerslayer » by James Fenimore Cooper
  • They had their tattoos with that phrase, All for one, one for all, pricked on their backs.
  • Extract from : « The Secret Pact » by Mildred A. Wirt
  • The design of these tattoos is meant to be, but is seldom, symmetrical.
  • Extract from : « Alone with the Hairy Ainu » by A. H. Savage Landor
  • I thought it best to send three tattoos and a march instead of four marches, although the former can be used as marches.
  • Extract from : « The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven, Volume III (of 3) » by Alexander Wheelock Thayer
  • To-day I give the lacking two tattoos and the fourth grand march to the post.
  • Extract from : « The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven, Volume III (of 3) » by Alexander Wheelock Thayer
  • Up to 1874, when the letter was made public, only one of the Tattoos had been printed.
  • Extract from : « The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven, Volume III (of 3) » by Alexander Wheelock Thayer
  • These were the three Tattoos which Beethoven sent to Peters, who, however, did not publish them.
  • Extract from : « The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven, Volume III (of 3) » by Alexander Wheelock Thayer
  • In the tattoos the lozenge pattern and bands are the two more commonly used.
  • Extract from : « Alone with the Hairy Ainu » by A. H. Savage Landor
  • I saw very plainly that this was their bhil; one by one they began to forsake their tattoos and collect.
  • Extract from : « Confessions of a Thug » by Philip Meadows Taylor

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