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2 September 2024

  • 07:2907:29, 2 September 2024 diff hist +417 N at haphazardCreated page with "==English== ===Adverb=== {{head|en|adverb}} # {{lb|en|now|rare}} Haphazardly, at random. {{defdate|from 16th c.}} #*'''1928''', {{w|W. Somerset Maugham}}, ''Ashenden'', Vintage 2000, p. v: #*:Fact is a poor story-teller. It starts a story '''at haphazard''', generally long before the beginning, rambles on inconsequentially and tails off, leaving loose ends hanging about, without a conclusion." current

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  • 09:2609:26, 13 July 2024 diff hist +9 m Torinese→‎Noun current
  • 09:2509:25, 13 July 2024 diff hist +512 N TorineseCreated page with "{{also|torinese}} ==English== ===Etymology=== From {{der|en|it|torinese}}. ===Adjective=== {{en-adj}} # Pertaining to the city of Turin, in northwest Italy. ===Noun=== {{en-noun}} # A native or inhabitant of Turin. #*'''2011''', {{w|David Gilmour (historian)|David Gilmour}}, ''The Pursuit of Italy'', Penguin 2012, p. 223: #*:What were they doing, he asked a '''Torinese''', all these warriors on horseback, waving their swirds as if charging at the head of their t..."
  • 09:2109:21, 13 July 2024 diff hist +18 torineseNo edit summary current

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  • 07:3507:35, 23 June 2024 diff hist +903 contadoNo edit summary current
  • 07:1007:10, 23 June 2024 diff hist +670 N NoveschiCreated page with "==English== {{wikipedia}} ===Proper noun=== {{en-proper noun}} # {{lb|en|historical}} The nine ruling councillors comprising the government of Siena during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. #*'''2011''', {{w|David Gilmour (historian)|David Gilmour}}, ''The Pursuit of Italy'', Penguin 2012, p. 65: #*:Standing there, you might feel you were before a just and more or less ideal government, which is what the '''''noveschi''''' thought they were. #*'''201..."

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  • 11:5811:58, 19 April 2024 diff hist +466 N horizon glassCreated page with "==English== ===Noun=== {{en-noun}} # {{lb|en|now|historical}} A half-silvered piece of glass mounted in a quadrant or sextant, so that the horizon can be seen at the same time as the reflection of a heavenly body. #*'''2006''', {{w|Hampton Sides}}, ''Blood and Thunder'', Abacus 2014, p. 258: #*:On the morning of August 25, shortly after breaking camp, he looked back with his '''horizon glass''' and caught a majestic glimpse of Cabezon Peak {{...}}."

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  • 15:2015:20, 19 March 2024 diff hist +634 N DhimotikiCreated page with "==English== ===Alternative forms=== *{{alter|en|dhimotiki|Dimotiki}} ===Proper noun=== {{en-proper noun}} # Demotic Greek. #*'''2005''', {{w|Robert McColl Millar}}, ''Language, Nation and Power'', Palgrave Macmillan, p. 88: #*:To many, '''Dhimotiki''' was seen as a more pliable, more creative, variety than Katharevousa. #*'''2019''', ''Language and Society'', Andrew Simpson, Oxford University Press, p. 116: #*:In 1903, when a translation of the Bible appeared in '..."
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