Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A variety of the abelmoschus, used in cookery.
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Examples
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Daardeur sal misdadigers en bende-lede duidelik die gesamentlike boodskap kan hoor dat daar geen plek vir hulle in die Paarl is nie.
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And in this quick-thinking way I must have waved my knife too close to her nose because she cried angrily, “Shemma bende ren!” —
The Joy Luck Club Tan, Amy 1989
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End ȝut ne deð heo {m} naht sa wá. ín ða laðe bende.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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All persons must bende themselues to peace and concorde so far as they maye/with retayninge of sowndnes in religiõ: But whẽ it can not be retayned/let none thincke that to keape peace with them he must cõmitt Idolatrie.
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Brecð nafre eft crist helle dure for lesen hem of bende
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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And the mole [4] peare did bende the leafy spraie;
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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After whose departure, the gods began to bende their indignation and displeasure vpon him, because he thoughte himselfe the happiest man aliue.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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Youre lymbes shall bende, albeytte strynge as stele;
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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He bar a bende bowe in his hand, was made off trusti tre.
Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series Various
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The talle chyrche-spyre upon the grene shalle bende;
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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