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... interesting . Even more interesting to me is the ambiguity of chic - your truly well - bred French man or woman would not like to be described as chic . Littré , the most authoritative traditional French dictionary , agrees with Robert ...
... interesting . Even more interesting to me is the ambiguity of chic - your truly well - bred French man or woman would not like to be described as chic . Littré , the most authoritative traditional French dictionary , agrees with Robert ...
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... interesting . Except that ' intimacy ' and ' mutual benevolence ' are transposed , the first definition is exactly the same as in the Concise . It is , however , in quotation marks and is followed by ' ( J ) ' . The OED of course has ...
... interesting . Except that ' intimacy ' and ' mutual benevolence ' are transposed , the first definition is exactly the same as in the Concise . It is , however , in quotation marks and is followed by ' ( J ) ' . The OED of course has ...
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... interesting . In Old English ' on ' used to mean both ' upon ' , when it took the dative , and ' on ' implying motion , when it took the accusative . Then case endings disappeared and ambiguity crept in . ' But ' , the entry goes on ...
... interesting . In Old English ' on ' used to mean both ' upon ' , when it took the dative , and ' on ' implying motion , when it took the accusative . Then case endings disappeared and ambiguity crept in . ' But ' , the entry goes on ...
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