Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A conductor of lightning; a lightning rod.
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Examples
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A certain English reactionary party would gladly make the Pope a paratonnerre to save Austria, but this won't do.
The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Browning, Elizabeth B 1898
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A certain English reactionary party would gladly make the Pope a _paratonnerre_ to save Austria, but this won't do.
The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1833
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