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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A kind of small black cherry.

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  • By the time I had finished the book, I still had no idea if the story was totally fictional, a fictionalised version of a real court case or a well researched, unsensationalised version that really did mes­merise Britain at the end of the C19th.

    Victorian Spiritualism: Arthur & George Hels 2009

  • By the time I had finished the book, I still had no idea if the story was totally fictional, a fictionalised version of a real court case or a well researched, unsensationalised version that really did mes­merise Britain at the end of the C19th.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Hels 2009

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