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- noun Plural form of
trunk . - noun
Swimming trunks .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun trousers that end at or above the knee
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Examples
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Whoever said that looks don't matter has never seen an Aga, the luxury cast-iron British "cooker" with multiple ovens, or La Cornue's Chateau series, whose cast-iron and steel ranges are reminiscent of steamer trunks from the days of the Grand Tour.
Dreams of a high-end kitchen range go on the front burner Domenica Marchetti 2010
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We can certainly imagine appropriate topologies that preserve the few main trunks of life that have their origin in a common population.
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I remember having guns behind truck seats or in trunks of cars in school parking lots as well and as long as they were locked in the vehicles and met state laws for transportation they were fine.
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Where there are several male students already hanging out in trunks?
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We can certainly imagine appropriate topologies that preserve the few main trunks of life that have their origin in a common population.
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I remember having guns behind truck seats or in trunks of cars in school parking lots as well and as long as they were locked in the vehicles and met state laws for transportation they were fine.
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We can certainly imagine appropriate topologies that preserve the few main trunks of life that have their origin in a common population.
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To house these delicate, expensive shoes, Rita would collect violins to use their thin, light wood as shoe trees, and then these would be placed in trunks of Russian leather made in St. Petersburg, closed with heavy locks and lined with a rich cream velvet.
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We trundle and stagger about with cabin trunks on our backs and induce hernias by lifting our Globetrotter suitcases onto aluminium racking.
Archive 2007-11-01 Peter Ashley 2007
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We trundle and stagger about with cabin trunks on our backs and induce hernias by lifting our Globetrotter suitcases onto aluminium racking.
Railway Echo No 4 Peter Ashley 2007
jmjarmstrong commented on the word trunks
JM advises that it is perfectly acceptable to watch elephants bathing as they always have their trunks on.
July 27, 2011