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- noun Plural form of
splay .
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Examples
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Any time anyone enters my house my cat flops over at their feet and splays her belly to be rubbed.
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Osio splays them out for us to ponder, to laugh at, to see in ourselves and in those around us.
James Scarborough: 7 at W. 70th, Little Fish Theatre James Scarborough 2010
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I watched the old mico sigh, relaxing her shoulders so the feather splays slumped.
Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011
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I watched the old mico sigh, relaxing her shoulders so the feather splays slumped.
Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011
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I pinned my hair with the turkey-tail copper pin, added splays of feathers to each shoulder, wore a white apron that tapered to a point between my knees, and laced thick shell necklaces around my neck.
Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011
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At the top, the Cofitachequi mico waited in all her finery; swan-feather splays at each shoulder accented a striking white fabric dress adorned with pearls and bits of mica that glittered in the light.
Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011
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However, by the time dusk splays across the city and our bus snakes its way back through the its urban streets, we come head to head with a human blockade of police with semiautomatics and shields.
Suzanne Skees: Egypt Exploded: An American in Cairo Ponders What Our Citizens Can Do for Theirs Suzanne Skees 2011
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However, by the time dusk splays across the city and our bus snakes its way back through the its urban streets, we come head to head with a human blockade of police with semiautomatics and shields.
Suzanne Skees: Egypt Exploded: An American in Cairo Ponders What Our Citizens Can Do for Theirs Suzanne Skees 2011
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I pinned my hair with the turkey-tail copper pin, added splays of feathers to each shoulder, wore a white apron that tapered to a point between my knees, and laced thick shell necklaces around my neck.
Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011
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At the top, the Cofitachequi mico waited in all her finery; swan-feather splays at each shoulder accented a striking white fabric dress adorned with pearls and bits of mica that glittered in the light.
Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011
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