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- noun Plural form of
abri .
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Examples
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Next beyond the abris was the latrine from which a puff of wind brought now and then a nauseous stench.
One Man's Initiation—1917 John Dos Passos 1933
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Nothing was found in these chambers and passages that could give an approximate date, but in the upper "abris" was some Gaulish pottery.
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One night during a heavy raid in Paris, when the French were safely hidden in the "abris," because they had sense enough to protect themselves, I saw about twenty sober but hilarious American soldiers marching down the middle of the boulevard, arm in arm, singing "Sweet
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Y es evidente que sos un tipo de una mente que si la abris lo único con lo que te encontrás es con las estrellistas de la bandera de USA o en caso contrario sos un “troll” porque evidentemente solo tomás de mi último comentario el tema Malvinas (que sabés que es lo que irrita) y hacés caso omiso a todo lo que escribí sobre mi postura respecto del tema de UNASUR.
Global Voices in English » Colombia: The Extraordinary UNASUR Meeting in Bariloche 2009
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Les multiples possibilits d'utilisation du ferrociment rduisent aussi les problmes de logistique; du treillis mtallique, du ciment, du sable et de l'eau peuvent se substituer au metal utilise pour renforcer les toitures, au ciment pour la construction des murs, au bois ou aux matires plastiques pour les abris ou les cliniques, l'asphalte pour les point d'aterrissage des hlicoptres, l'acier pour les poets, etc..
Chapter 13 1973
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I've been in some twenty-five or thirty air-raids in four or five cities of France, and I have never yet seen many Americans who took to the "abris."
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And it was all -- riding along the line, huddling in abris, sneaking scared to death along trenches, and ducking from the shells -- all vastly diverting.
The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me William Allen White 1906
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As soon as a lull in the firing permitted, we ran across the street to the _abris_.
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One of our workers, who was at the hospital, told me that her first impulse was to run for an _abris_ as we would do at the canteen, but when she looked about her and saw everybody composedly going on with duty, she gathered herself together and did the same -- "Although," she added, "my teeth just rattled at first."
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I finally took advantage of a lull in the firing, when the Germans went back to their own lines for more ammunition, to get over the _abris_.
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