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With more than 6000 visitors attending each year, it's like a celebration for all of Fort Lauderdale - only with slightly more "opas" than you'd usually hear downtown.
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Still, if you want to be ruled exclusively by the sort of people who'll happily spend years agreeing wholeheartedly with said opas but who mysteriously change their stance once they actually get to Westminster, so be it...
Blair To Block Lords Reform? Kerron Cross 2006
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Ever been woken up by groups of drunk and carousing omas and opas singing folk songs?
Spent baggyk 2006
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Graeci quoque has personas [Greek: prosopa] uocant ab eo quod ponantur in facie atque ante oculos obtegant uultum: [Greek: para tou pros tous opas tithesthai.]
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908
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The Greeks, too, call these masks [Greek: prosopa] from the fact that they are placed over the face and conceal the countenance from the spectator: [Greek: para tou pros tous opas tithesthai].
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908
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Four-year-old Lapassarada Mung-opas submitted the winning entry in a contest to name the baby koala at the Chiang Mai Zoo in northern Thailand.
WBAY Action 2 News 2010
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Sont omnes opas Trajani, dempio numo D« Trajani, in quo legitur resti - tutor HadrianaSi et nnmo M. Antonii IIlTiri, quem restitnerunt M. Aurelius, et L. Yeras.
Doctrina nvmorvm vetervm conscripta a Josepho Eckhel .. 1792
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* peri de tes ton echinon aistheseos sumbebeke pollachou tetheoresthai hoti metaballonton boreon kai noton hoi men en te ge tas opas hauton metameibousi hoi d 'en tais oikiais trephomenoi metaballousi pros tous toichous: [2394] 1
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_opas_ of those who perform personal duty for others.
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Opcrsmiini opas ve - ftrum ante cempus, * 6c dai) ic vobis merc6dem veftram in cempore fuo.
Diurnale Noviomense. ad usum regalis ecclesiæ S. Quintini accommodatum. Pars hiemalis (æstiva). 1774
frindley commented on the word opas
Orchestra Planning and Administration System. A whiz-bang, super-duper, truly amazing database for planning concerts, managing artists, musicians, library records, etc. etc. Even better, in my mind, than Tessitura – or at least I'm more fond of it. Alternatively, perhaps it's just German for "grandfathers".
September 1, 2008