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  • The word is first used in combination in the phrase "tawdry lace," a shortened form or corruption of St Audrey's or St Awdrey's lace.

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  • For his account of earlier events he was able to obtain information from his father, who was one of the most prominent 1 A shortened form of Chalcocondyles, from xaXicos, copper, and xovSvXos, knuckle.

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  • This is a shortened form of the earlier "rake-hell," apparently in common use in the 16th century.

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  • The shortened form of cassock which survives in the bishop's "apron" was formerly widely used also by the continental clergy.

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  • The use of the word for a place of commercial business has usually been taken to be a shortened form of Exchange (q.v.) and so is often written 'Change.

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  • This is, apparently, a shortened form of the French elite, elected.

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  • In 922 Charles the Simple gave in full possession to a count in Frisia, Dirk by name (a shortened form of Diederic, Latin Theodoricus), "the church of Egmont with all that belonged to it from Swithardeshage to Kinhem."

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  • Contracted or shortened form (Umbel), Cowslip, Astrantia.

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  • After the three Achaemenian kings of this name, it occurs in Armenia, in the shortened form Artaxias (Armenian, Artashes or Artaxes), and among the dynasts of Persia who maintained their independence during the Parthian period (see PERS15).

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  • Miley is actually a nickname, which is a shortened form of "Smiley," but the name stuck.

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  • Alternatives include, "Je te trouve sympa" which is a shortened form of "Jet e trouve sympathique," or "I think you are nice."

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  • Also the "unit" e l (or e,) considered as a number of the system is merely a shortened form for the complex number (+I) ei +0e2+ +oen.

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  • In 1871 a new Lectionary was substituted for the previously existing one, into the merits and demerits of which it is not possible to enter here; and in 1872, by the Act of Uniformity Amendment Act, a shortened form of service was provided instead of the present form of Morning and Evening Prayer for optional use in other than cathedral churches on all days exeept Sunday, Christmas Day, Ash Wednesday, Good Friday and Ascension Day; provision was also statutably made for the separation of services, and for additional services, to be taken, however, except so far as anthems and hymns are concerned, entirely out of the Bible and the Book of Common Prayer.

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