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  • noun Plural form of cellar.

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Examples

  • A lot of those cases where you hear about women being locked in cellars and raped, the guy they finally arrest is usually some sort of sexually-repressed fundie.

    Think Progress » Portugal’s parliament approves same-sex marriage. 2010

  • It is aged in cellars or caves in the mountains and is turned every 2 days and washed with whey to speed the aging process.

    Everything old is new again.. Michele 2005

  • The presence of a few itinerant priests, hiding in cellars and fishing boats, would hardly have accounted for such a significant shift.

    Gutenber-e Help Page 2005

  • It is aged in cellars or caves in the mountains and is turned every 2 days and washed with whey to speed the aging process.

    For the love of Reblochon.. Michele 2005

  • Its four million Muslims have eight formal mosques (some count 1,600 mosques, but many of these are better described as informal prayer rooms in cellars or spare workrooms).

    The Crescent and the Tricolor 2000

  • Its four million Muslims have eight formal mosques (some count 1,600 mosques, but many of these are better described as informal prayer rooms in cellars or spare workrooms).

    The Crescent and the Tricolor 2000

  • The universal problem for people with great cellars is - with whom do you share your really beautiful and rare wines?

    My Life and Hard Wines 1985

  • Only wisps of smoke creeping up through the rubble are there to remind you that these people are now finding shelter in cellars and living under the ruins of their former homes.

    Europe Is Dying 1950

  • You have imagined, probably, a huge underworld of conspirators, meeting secretly in cellars, scribbling messages on walls, recognizing one another by codewords or by special movements of the hand.

    Nineteen Eighty-Four 1949

  • "Hallo!" cried Oswald, and if his gallant voice trembled he is not ashamed of it, because he knows about wells in cellars, and, for an instant, even he did not know what happened.

    New Treasure Seekers Edith 1925

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