Meaning of 1690s | Babel Free

Definitions

The decade from 1690 to 1699.

plural, plural-only

Examples

“Certainly Sibbald's account of Falkland makes no mention⟳ of Gedde's apifacture in the Royal Park⟳, nor is there any physical sign⟳ of it in Slezer's view⟳ of the Palace and surrounding countryside drawn in the early 1690s”

“In the later 1690s Rewse became a successful thief-taker, reaping large rewards for the capture⟳ of Jacobite conspirators, clippers, and coiners.”

“Wildlife biologist Stanley Temple hypothesised that perhaps the dodo tree was dependent on its seeds passing through the digestive system of dodos in order⟳ to properly germinate and that the handful of individuals in the 1970s were the last⟳ remaining trees from seeds that passed through a dodo in the 1690s-1700s when they went extinct.”

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