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The new-look hat, dubbed The Bianca Adventurer Fedora, was a collaboration with Australian fashion label Bec & Bridge and Akubra.
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You do not then believe what Herodotus wrote of two children, who, at the special command and appointment of Psammeticus, King of Egypt, having been kept in a petty country cottage, where they were nourished and entertained in a perpetual silence, did at last, after a certain long space of time, pronounce this word Bec, which in the Phrygian language signifieth bread.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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Scott painter Chuck Broussard incorporated his love of Louisiana birds into a cello, titled Bec Croche.
theadvertiser.com - 2009
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The nearest tube (subway) station is Tooting Bec, which is in Zone 3.
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a perpetual silence, did at last, after a certain long space of time, pronounce this word Bec, which in the Phrygian language signifieth bread.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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a perpetual silence, did at last, after a certain long space of time, pronounce this word Bec, which in the Phrygian language signifieth bread.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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The first commenter on the post you linked to was an insufferable harridan by the name of "Bec" who delights in calling Kady O'Malley a "bitch," for doing her job too well and, naturally, never gets called on her sexist insult by her fellow Conservatives.
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Kirk agrees: 'Bec's no stranger to dogs or animals.
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'Bec's my life,' says a loving Kirk, who used this plank of wood to fight off the dingo.
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Mr. Hawkins, in his _Picture of Quebec, &c., 1834_, denies the Indian origin of the word, since, as he says, there is no analogous sound to it in any of their languages; and he assumes a Norman origin for it on the strength of "Bec" being always used by the Normans to designate a promontory in the first place; and secondly, because the word Quebec is actually found upon a seal of the Earl of Suffolk, of historical celebrity temp.
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