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- noun Rhubarb.
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Rhubarb is a medieval Latin coinage, a combination of Greek rha and barbarum: “rhubarb” and “foreign.”
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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Rhubarb is a medieval Latin coinage, a combination of Greek rha and barbarum: “rhubarb” and “foreign.”
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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"Ie rha," she said as she set to work—speaking aloud in sheer angry relish, and for the moment with utter disregard to what t'Liun might hear.
My Enemy My Ally Diane Duane 2000
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"Ie rha," she said as she set to work—speaking aloud in sheer angry relish, and for the moment with utter disregard to what t'Liun might hear.
My Enemy My Ally Diane Duane 2000
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"Ie rha," she said as she set to work—speaking aloud in sheer angry relish, and for the moment with utter disregard to what t'Liun might hear.
My Enemy My Ally Diane Duane 2000
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* [6547] Eixantas megaloio theou logō hos rha kaluptei
Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost 1616-1683 1965
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* [2923] Eixantas megaloio theou logō hos rha kaluptei
Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost 1616-1683 1965
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This man, in his representative character, was slain on the harvest-field, and mourned by the reapers, who prayed at the same time that the corn-spirit might revive and return (mââ-ne-rha, Maneros) with renewed vigour in the following year.
Chapter 47. Lityerses. § 4. The Corn-spirit slain in his Human Representatives 1922
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This man, in his representative character, was slain on the harvest-field, and mourned by the reapers, who prayed at the same time that the corn-spirit might revive and return (mââ-ne-rha, Maneros) with renewed vigour in the following year.
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"[Greek: 'All' hôste stathmê dory nêion exithynei tektonos en palam si daêmonos, hoo rha te pasês eu eidê sophiês, hypothêmosynêsin 'Athênês]," and the beautiful epithet of Persephone, -- "[Greek: daeira]," as the
Aratra Pentelici, Seven Lectures on the Elements of Sculpture Given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1870 John Ruskin 1859
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