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Traditional English :: picayune
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picayune.html - n. & adj. US --n. 1 colloq. a small coin of little value, esp. a 5-cent piece.
2 an insignificant person or thing. --adj. mean; contemptible; petty. [F picaillon Piedmontese coin, cash, f. Prov. picaioun, of unkn. orig.] |
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Traditional English :: picayune
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picayune.html - n. & adj. US --n. 1 colloq. a small coin of little value, esp. a 5-cent piece.
2 an insignificant person or thing. --adj. mean; contemptible; petty. [F picaillon Piedmontese coin, cash, f. Prov. picaioun, of unkn. orig.] |
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Traditional English :: pica(1)
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picayune.html - n. Printing 1 a unit of type-size (1/6 inch). 2 a size of letters in typewriting (10 per inch). [AL pica 15th-c. book of rules about church feasts, perh. formed as PIE(2)] |
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Traditional English :: pica(2)
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picayune.html - n.
Med. the eating of substances other than normal food. [mod.L or med.L, = magpie] |
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Traditional English :: picador
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picayune.html - n.
a mounted man with a lance who goads the bull in a bullfight. [Sp. f. picar prick] |
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Traditional English :: picaresque
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picayune.html - adj.
(of a style of fiction) dealing with the episodic adventures of rogues etc. [F f. Sp. picaresco f. pÂcaro rogue] |
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