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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A tam-o'-shanter.
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- noun A
tam o'shanter , a tallknit wool cap traditionally associated withScotland .
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Examples
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Qui tam is short for the Latin phrase "qui tam pro domino rege quam pro se ipso in hac parte sequitur", which means, "he who brings a case on behalf of our lord the King, as well as for himself."
David Isenberg: ABC J'accuse MEP: There is no there there 2010
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Qui tam is short for qui tam pro domino rege quam pro se ipso in hac parte sequitur, which means he “who pursues this action on our Lord the King’s behalf as well as his own.”
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Qui tam is short for qui tam pro domino rege quam pro se ipso in hac parte sequitur, which means he “who pursues this action on our Lord the King’s behalf as well as his own.”
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(Qui tam is short for the Latin phrase qui tam pro domino rege quam pro se ipso in hac parte sequitur or "he who brings the action for the king as well as for himself".
Gary S. Chafetz: UBS Whistleblower Sentenced to 40-Month Prison Term Puts Chill on Whistleblowing 2009
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Note 152: Cotton manuscript, Wolter, no. 10, p. 48: "cunctas optinet stupor in tam horribili facto." back
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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Et sic vere illa parva gens illis magnis innocentibus, qui pro Christo occisi sunt, comparari creditur; quia et ipsa in tam tenera etate labores inmensos et mortem famis, que crudelior est gladio, subire meruit.
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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Apparently, the word tam in reference to Jacob aims to describe the very opposite traits.
Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942
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As the small buses she called tam-tams climbed the mountain road, she saw a cloud of dust blown up and across in the dry riverbed valley below and thought it was a dust storm.
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He is a man described as tam v'yasher -- that is, wholesome and righteous.
Levi Ben-Shmuel: Suffering, Thanksgiving And The Book of Job Levi Ben-Shmuel 2011
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He is a man described as tam v'yasher -- that is, wholesome and righteous.
Levi Ben-Shmuel: Suffering, Thanksgiving And The Book of Job Levi Ben-Shmuel 2011
jaime_d commented on the word tam
From "Au Tombeau de Charles Fourier" by Guy Davenport
January 19, 2010
vendingmachine commented on the word tam
"A tam—a slouchy beret that's more than 10 inches in diameter—is another option. For winter, I also love an oblong scarf. With oversized sunglasses, the effect is very Audrey Hepburn. And your ears are protected."
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970203893404577098501040218614
February 26, 2015