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  • Their action was intended as a play on the word "almond" in French - amande, which is close to the word "fine" - amende.

    The Guardian World News Angelique Chrisafis 2011

  • "amande" of several bands of different colours, on the central one being inscribed in a mixture of Greek and Latin characters -- one of the new fashions brought in by the Greek revival:

    Illuminated Manuscripts John William Bradley 1873

  • ALEXANDER NECKAM; and both this old name and its more modern form of Almond came to us through the French _amande_ (Provençal, _amondala_), from the Greek and

    The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868

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