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English
Noun
scissars pl (plural only)
- Archaic form of scissors.
a. 1746 (date written), Jonathan Swift, “Duty of the Other Servant, Where There Are Two”, in Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols, editors, The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, , new edition, volume XVI, London: J Johnson, , published 1801, →OCLC, page 177:Carry with you a stirrup-leather, an awl, twelve horse nails, and a horse’s fore shoes, pick, and a hammer, for fear of an accident; and some ends, and packthread, a bottlescrew, knife and penknife, needles, pins, thread, silk, worsted, &c. Some plasters and scissars.
1811, [Jane Austen], chapter XII, in Sense and Sensibility , volume I, London: C Roworth, , and published by T Egerton, , →OCLC, pages 139–140:Last night after tea, when you and mama went out of the room, they were whispering and talking together as fast as could be, and he seemed to be begging something of her, and presently he took up her scissars and cut off a long lock of her hair, for it was all tumbled down her back; […]