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- noun Plural form of
arete .
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Examples
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When the power elite, aristoi/aretes say conservatism its in the old sense of monarchs.
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For example, here's Sam Durrell's trip on a cog railway: There was a long, narrow valley; a rushing, frothy stream; autumnal flowers in the meadow; an area of boulder-strewn fields in deep shadow from the rugged aretes on either hand.
Archive 2007-09-30 Bill Crider 2007
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For example, here's Sam Durrell's trip on a cog railway: There was a long, narrow valley; a rushing, frothy stream; autumnal flowers in the meadow; an area of boulder-strewn fields in deep shadow from the rugged aretes on either hand.
Assignment: School for Spies -- Edward S. Aarons Bill Crider 2007
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In addition to these summits, there was a field, practically unexplored, of route finding on faces, aretes, gullies, and chimneys.
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In addition to these summits, there was a field, practically unexplored, of route finding on faces, aretes, gullies, and chimneys.
Archive 2005-07-01 2005
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Voy a la joyería a comprarle un anillo de oro con un diamante grande, con aretes que le combienen.
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Earrings = aretes (This is also the word for the plant which, in English, is called fuschia)
Mexican Idioms? 2003
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Voy a la joyería a comprarle un anillo de oro con un diamante grande, con aretes que le combienen.
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Yo voy a comprar el anillo oro diamante grande con los aretes que emparejan.
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-- Ed. [51] Tauta, oimai, saphos para ton propheton peri tou hagiou pneumatos memathekos Platon eis to tes aretes onoma metapheron phainetai.
Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967
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