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- noun Plural form of
fur .
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Examples
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Prepare! your toils only begin: wrap yourself in furs, and provide food, for we shall soon enter upon
Chapter 7 2010
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We were gathered there around the fire, wrapped in furs and skins against the chill wind that blows down from the peaks.
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So the sled-lashings were cut, and the sufferer, rolled in furs, laid on a couch of boughs.
THE WHITE SILENCE 2010
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The sight of seven women in furs blundering around crime scenes has its own rewards.
VinceKeenan.com 2009
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I understand the current going price for these furs is less than $10 each so I doubt that too many people are doing it much anymore.
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A hundred men or so, garbed in furs and warm-colored wools, lined the walls and looked on.
CHAPTER 11 2010
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So the sled-lashings were cut, and the sufferer, rolled in furs, laid on a couch of boughs.
The White Silence 2010
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I understand the current going price for these furs is less than $10 each so I doubt that too many people are doing it much anymore.
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New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly sent many scrambling when he used "furtive" — meaning "done by stealth," derived from furs, the Latin word for thief — to describe how the Times Square bomber looked in surveillance footage.
Our 'Pragmatic,' 'Ebullient' Year of 'Austerity' Andrew Flynn 2010
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It would be highly embarrassing for the Russian government to come out and say publicly, "Yes, this man Khintsagov, who by all measures did not have a very good education, and who had wheeled and dealed in furs and things like that for a living, actually had at his disposal two kilograms of bomb-grade uranium."
Uranium on the Loose 2008
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