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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The parallel of latitude 23°27′ north of the equator, the northern boundary of the Torrid Zone, and the most northerly latitude at which the sun can shine directly overhead.
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- proper noun geography The
parallel oflatitude 23°30′north of theequator , marking thenorthern boundary of thetropics ; thesun is directlyoverhead at thesummer solstice .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a line of latitude about 23 degrees to the north of the equator
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Examples
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I fell for Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer, oh yes, and now Lady Chatterley's Lover, seemed innocent as the tulle formals we once wore, our firm neat little tits pressed carefully into the tight-boned strapless bodices, not a line of cleavage to be seen.
Jill Robinson: Helen Gurley Brown And the Ostentatious Orgasm Jill Robinson 2011
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I fell for Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer, oh yes, and now Lady Chatterley's Lover, seemed innocent as the tulle formals we once wore, our firm neat little tits pressed carefully into the tight-boned strapless bodices, not a line of cleavage to be seen.
Jill Robinson: Helen Gurley Brown And the Ostentatious Orgasm Jill Robinson 2011
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I fell for Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer, oh yes, and now Lady Chatterley's Lover, seemed innocent as the tulle formals we once wore, our firm neat little tits pressed carefully into the tight-boned strapless bodices, not a line of cleavage to be seen.
Jill Robinson: Helen Gurley Brown And the Ostentatious Orgasm Jill Robinson 2011
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During the summer solstice, the subsolar point moves to the Tropic of Cancer because at this time the North Pole is tilted 23. 5° toward the sun.
Earth-Sun geometry 2009
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The writing reminds me very much of Henry Miller in Tropic of Cancer - it's vigorous, bawdy, honest and funny.
Reading and Writing Chickenlady 2008
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The writing reminds me very much of Henry Miller in Tropic of Cancer - it's vigorous, bawdy, honest and funny.
Archive 2008-03-01 Chickenlady 2008
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Geographically, the ecoregion extends across the northwestern Indian State of Gujarat and southern Pakistan's Sind Desert region, sitting along the Tropic of Cancer.
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Here's where the conventionality shows: If you know your Henry Miller, you know that Tropic of Capricorn is better than Tropic of Cancer.
I suppose so ... Frank Wilson 2008
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This marks the Tropic of Cancer, along which lie Calcutta, India; Havana, Cuba; Hong Kong; and Mazatlán, Mexico.
Noooooo!!! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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So if one donates Venus in Furs by Count Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Justine by de Sade, Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller, Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille, etc., etc. to an elementary school and sees them refused by the librarians, one can sue them and the school district?
Luskin Once Again Gets The Law Wrong - The Panda's Thumb 2007
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