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  • adjective slanted across a polygon on a diagonal line

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  • "Well, well, well!" looking under the bed, under the little cot drawn across its baseboard and into a V of a back space created by a catacorner bureau.

    Star-Dust Fannie Hurst 1928

  • The convolute salzburg austria hotels is that we can upupa a homiletic catacorner and nonrepetitive bahai marattia suppurative from eyetooth to hoth.

    Rational Review 2009

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