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The Collins Dictionary gives one of the meanings of “vernissage” as “varnishing day”.

Archive 2010-05-01 Rene Meertens 2010
The Collins Dictionary gives one of the meanings of “vernissage” as “varnishing day”.

Varnishing and Polishing Rene Meertens 2010
Collins Dictionary experts have compiled a list of words which have fallen out of use by tracking how often they appear.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
Lost amid the mini-jungle of its dried-up fronds is a dust-covered Collins Dictionary.

The Guardian World News 2009
According to my trusty Collins Dictionary, a "vamp" is "a seductive woman who exploits men by use of her sexual charms" and to "vamp" means to "exploit in the fashion of a vamp".

TrinidadExpress Today's News 2008
It was reported this week that one of the largest databases of the English language, the Collins Dictionary, has asked the public to rescue endangered words.

Cricket365 2008
But in 1986 it was moved into second place by the second edition of Collins Dictionary of the English Language.

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XV No 1 1988