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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of or relating to the talus or the ankle.

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Examples

  • A chronic "ankle" should prompt evaluation for other conditions, such as talar dome lesion.

    xml's Blinklist.com 2008

  • I'm going to bed and going to hope that it's not a talar fracture thank you, Google because I really don't want to brave another hospital with broken Japanese.

    Archive 2010-05-01 2010

  • I'm going to bed and going to hope that it's not a talar fracture thank you, Google because I really don't want to brave another hospital with broken Japanese.

    The ditch 2010

  • Pastor who had followed after Madame de Ruth to don his black 'talar,' the clerical gown of the Lutheran divine, returned and took up his position before the altar table.

    A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg 1905

  • Beside me sat the whitebearded Archbishop of Gran, primate of Hungary, in a black silk talar, with a red cape; on the other side a very amiable and elegant general of cavalry, Prince Liechtenstein.

    The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle Kuno Francke 1892

  • Josephus, supposes that the whole Temple had an upper story of wood, a talar, as appears in other Eastern edifices.

    The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 Rossiter Johnson 1885

  • Excepting that he wore a beard and robe, his appearance even had nothing in common with them; and his talar was not like theirs, embroidered with hieroglyphics, tongues, and flames, but of plain white stuff, which gave him the aspect of a learned and priestly sage.

    A Thorny Path — Volume 06 Georg Ebers 1867

  • Excepting that he wore a beard and robe, his appearance even had nothing in common with them; and his talar was not like theirs, embroidered with hieroglyphics, tongues, and flames, but of plain white stuff, which gave him the aspect of a learned and priestly sage.

    A Thorny Path — Volume 06 Georg Ebers 1867

  • Besides these and other similar objects, her curiosity was aroused by some large chests in which book-rolls, strange vessels, and an endless variety of raiment of every shape and size were stored, from the simple chiton of the common laborer to the star-embroidered talar of the adept.

    A Thorny Path — Volume 11 Georg Ebers 1867

  • Excepting that he wore a beard and robe, his appearance even had nothing in common with them; and his talar was not like theirs, embroidered with hieroglyphics, tongues, and flames, but of plain white stuff, which gave him the aspect of a learned and priestly sage.

    A Thorny Path — Volume 06 Georg Ebers 1867

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