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- noun Cockney rhyming slang
skin (rolling paper for cigarettes; from Vera Lynn)
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October 30, 2008 12: 24 PM vera is such a darling. i enjoyed dis post very much.
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December 22, 2008 3: 11 PM we are earnestly waiting for the post. i have nudged vera from the queue and im numero uno
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The name "Veronica" also is a colloquial version of the Latin word "vera," meaning true, and Greek word Icon meaning "image."
USATODAY.com - Pope makes pilgrimage to view 'Holy Face' on veil of Veronica 2006
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This was called the "true image" of Christ, which is in Latin "vera icona" and became the "veronica," or "veronica's veil," with which she wiped the suffering face of Christ on the road to the cross.
Spero News author unknown 2010
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This was called the "true image" of Christ, which is in Latin "vera icona" and became the "veronica," or "veronica's veil," with which she wiped the suffering face of Christ on the road to the cross.
Spero News author unknown 2010
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Aloe vera, which is already familiar to many can be particularly effective for soothing irritated skin.
Psoriasis Guru » Blog Archive » Treating Psoriasis with Aloe Vera – Soothing Relief 2009
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To distinguish at Rome the oldest and best known of these images it was called vera icon (true image), which ordinary language soon made veronica.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913
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Some of the disorders developed by patients with the JAK2 variant were of the milder variety such as polycythemia vera, which isn't typically classified as a cancer.
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Some of the disorders developed by patients with the JAK2 variant were of the milder variety such as polycythemia vera, which isn't typically classified as a cancer.
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This is the reason why philosophy, which does not try to fixate veridiction within a system of codified truth but, in each and every event of language, leads to the word and exposes the veridiction on which it is founded, is necessarily what we may call vera religio.
An und für sich 2009
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