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- noun Plural form of
patella .
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Examples
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Demi Moore's patellae are a miracle of modern technology, but that's a topic for another day.
Diane Gilman: The Swimsuit Issue Diane Gilman 2012
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Personally, I think life is too short to feel such contempt for your patellae.
Oh No She Didn’t Clinton Kelly 2010
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My hyper-mobile patellae complicated matters and I soon found that 10 minutes on the cross-trainer would pinch my knees until I lost feeling.
CSS: Shaping the New You Jack Canfield 2010
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My hyper-mobile patellae complicated matters and I soon found that 10 minutes on the cross-trainer would pinch my knees until I lost feeling.
CSS: Shaping the New You Jack Canfield 2010
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As soon as I straighten my legs, my patellae slid back into place and I must have done that instinctively the first time they popped out.
Knee Change 2007
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It was the first of a lifetime of knee woes; I was born with a tendency to dislocation, because of a congenital problem with my patellae.
Knee Change 2007
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Today, for your reading pleasure, I give you chondromalacia patellae.
purplecigar Diary Entry purplecigar 2005
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Demi Moore's patellae are a miracle of modern technology, but that's a topic for another day.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Diane Gilman 2012
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Observe the patellae -- with what tenacity they cling to save themselves from being washed into the deep water, and being devoured by the fishes that are playing in its chasms!
The King's Own Frederick Marryat 1820
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It does indeed, as Miss November's impressive pair of patellae demonstrate: here.
The Register 2010
chained_bear commented on the word patellae
"In such kitchens cauldrons hung from ornate chains alongside new equipment like frying pans, known as patellae, some with folding handles so that they could also be used in the oven and some with deep moulded rings to equalise the heat across the base."
--Kate Colquhoun, Taste: The Story of Britain Through Its Cooking (NY: Bloomsbury, 2007), 23
January 6, 2017