Meanings
- pluralplural onlyThe decade from 1820 to 1829.
Other winterings followed in 1795 and on four occasions in the 1820s, but one in 1834–1835 ended with the death of all members of a seven-man party.
2003, William J. Mills, Exploring Polar Frontiers: A Historical Encyclopedia2 more examples
He made his fortune during the presteel era of Pittsburgh's development — the period before Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick — beginning in the 1820s and 1830s with a start in pharmaceuticals and white lead.
2001, William Alan Blair, William Pencak, Making and Remaking Pennsylvania's Civil War, page 107The decisions of the 1820s–50s deprived the Adygeic princes who had accepted Russian citizenship of almost all their former privileges, above all the right to convoke troops, declare war, make raids.
2018, I. S. Karabulatova et al., “Mythologization of the Abrek's Image in the Modern Caucasian Linguistic Consciousness”, in Astra Salvensis, volume 6, number 12, →ISSN, page 740
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