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Shakers

/ ˈʃeɪkəz /

plural noun

the Shakers
an American millenarian sect, founded in 1747 as an offshoot of the Quakers, given to ecstatic shaking, advocating celibacy for its members, and practising common ownership of property

Shakers

A religious group that rose in America in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Shakers derived their name from a dance that was part of their religious ceremony. They lived in small, tightly knit communities and observed celibacy.

Shaker furniture is renowned for its simplicity, strength, and beauty.

These men knew each other as comrades in arms, and are members of a brotherhood that includes movers and shakers.

“They could put those salt and pepper shakers in their hand,” he says, shaking in head in wonderment.

Female movers and shakers host their own economic forum in France.

So in a city now crammed with a plethora of big name chefs is a sentimental journey enough to entice the movers and shakers?

They the sportive, the roaring, with bright spears, the shakers of the clouds have themselves glorified their greatness.

"Keep earth-shakers out of Ogrum squatting place," the dawn man answered.

"Earth-shakers" was Guru's name for the dinosaurs and "squatting place" was his word for city.

One dozen bonbon dishes, five nouveau riche sugar shakers (we never use them), three muffineers—in heaven's name, what's that?

If young Shakers fall in luv tha are sot tu weeding onions, and that kures them forthwithly.

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