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- adjective Resembling or characteristic of a
dace .
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Examples
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Vargrave thus rattled away in order to give the good banker to understand that his affairs were in the most flourishing condition: and he continued to keep up the ball all dinnertime, stopping Mr. Douce's little, miserable, gasping, dacelike mouth, with "a glass of wine, Douce?" or "by the by, Douce," whenever he saw that worthy gentleman about to make the
Alice, or the Mysteries — Book 06 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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Vargrave thus rattled away in order to give the good banker to understand that his affairs were in the most flourishing condition: and he continued to keep up the ball all dinnertime, stopping Mr. Douce's little, miserable, gasping, dacelike mouth, with "a glass of wine,
Alice, or the Mysteries — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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