Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kind of taffeta, or plain smooth silk stuff without pattern, from the East Indies.
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Examples
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Quod si placet absque vivaci igne flammas excitare Jpbes aridas eum super faces deponere;
The Introductory Lecture of Thomas Cooper, Esq. Thomas Cooper 1812
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Continuo, vcntis furgcntibus, aut freta ponti Incipiunt agitata tumefcerc, et aridas altis Montibus audiri fragor; aut refonantia longe Litora mifceri, et nemorum increbrefcere munnur.
P. Virgilii Maronis Opera Virgil, Gilbert Wakefield 1796
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pulcris excubat in genis. inportunus enim transuolat aridas quercus et refugit te quia luridi10
The Latter End of Lyce Horace 1912
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\sdum aridas ficos, ternas quaternasue guttas mftu - iant 3 ut cum hu marejcarii: quas adujmrecondunt.
Pedanii Dioscoridis Anazarbei De medicinali materia libri sex Dioscórides , Dioscorides Pedanius , Joannes Ruellius 1550
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