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- a small ship lug-rigged on two or three masts.
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- [luhg-er]
- A good many persons of the pension had gone over to the Cheniere Caminada in Beaudelet's lugger to hear mass.
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- a dependent person, especially a child
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- [en-kuhm-bruh[image]ns]
- The quadroon nurse was looked upon as a huge encumbrance, only good to button up waists and painties and to brush and part hair.
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- a small thing or person.
- Noun
- [dih-min-yuh-tiv]
- She had possesion of the rocker, and she was busily engaged in sweing upon a diminutive pair of night drawers.
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- violent and noisy commotion or disturbance of a crowd ormob; uproar
- Noun
- [too-muh[image]lt]
- How many souls perish in its tumult!
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- Obsolete . fanciful or witty.
- Adjective
- [kuh-prish-uh[image]s]
- Sometimes I am tempted to think that Mrs. Pontellier is capricious.
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