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  • noun Alternative spelling of vav.

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Examples

  • "E meu ru ru a vau," it ran, and that was all of it, sung in a stately, endless, ever-varying chant, accompanied by solemn chords from the ukelele.

    BY THE TURTLES OF TASMAN 2010

  • Since the "f" sign was an Etruscan innovation, it could have been identical in name to Latin ef, or another possibility is *fau a rhyme with the digamma *vau, cf. waw.

    An online Etruscan Dictionary has arrived 2010

  • Mõne filmiga kohe on nii, et satud juhuslikult vaatama ning siis avastad, et vau! olulise mehe tehtud ja nähtud ka vist kunagi.

    The People Under the Stairs (1991) Ulmeguru 2009

  • YHWH, yod-he-vau-he, came from the Hebrew root HWH, meaning both "life" and "woman" - in Latin letters, E-V-E.

    Archive 2008-09-01 Jan 2008

  • YHWH, yod-he-vau-he, came from the Hebrew root HWH, meaning both "life" and "woman" - in Latin letters, E-V-E.

    Tomb of Eve? Jan 2008

  • The rest is kosher when we understand the quirky use of 'k' and 'ph' in this text, rather than the now-standard 'c' and 'f' to indicate Etruscan kappa and vau.

    More published errors on Etruscan inscriptions 2007

  • I think that the later scribes changed vau into jod (a very frequent change in Hebrew) when they wished to express the feminine gender, but that the ancients only distinguished the two genders by

    Theologico-Political Treatise 2007

  • The vau part sounds like vaut from the verb valoir to be worth and dieu is French for God.

    Words in a French Life Kristin Espinasse 2007

  • Homeland Security unable to secure handguns in vau...

    12/27/2006 2006

  • Vaudeville derived from the French, Middle French, popular satirical song, alteration of vaudevire, from vau-de-Vire valley of Vire, town in northwest France where such songs were composed.

    Jim Crow Bluesman Harry 1998

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