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Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A vineyard or wine-producing region in France.
- n. A grade or class of wine: premier cru.
Wiktionary
- n. A grade or class of wine; as, premier cru
Etymologies
- From French (Wiktionary)
- French, from past participle of croître, to grow, from Old French creistre; see crescent. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“November 17, 2009 at 12: 24 pm grand cru is doing free dinner on wed and sat”
“Air Force Academy where students are pressured to attend the Crusade's weekly "cru" - (short for crusade) Bible study, American military personnel are, as Campus Crusade's Scot Blom gloats, "government paid missionaries" - when they complete their training.”
“Mr. Sauvion also noted the recent attempt to create a system of Muscadet classification called "cru communal" as a positive development.”
The Wall Street Journal: Cheap but Charming: Dipping Into Muscadet
“Also included, but by special order, you can order poisson cru, which is a Tahitian specialty, sort of like ceviche.”
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“» more cru Investment Management news cru, which is targeting the UAE and the regional investors in the GCC to soon offer a shariah-compliant Fund focused on commercial agriculture in Africa, said that the financial turmoil and the resultant steep fall in the value of conventional market instruments will speed up the pace of the growing affinity towards Islamic finance and real assets globally.”
“Campus Crusade for Christ (known as "cru" on college campuses) has been providing weekly "God's Basic Training" programs to the U.S.”
“Let us say Romané-Conti, which is the "cru" that Barty loved best.”
“Château Les Ormes de Pez, Cru Bourgeois, St-Estèphe, Bordeaux 1995 £35, MajesticFrom the same stable as the very smart bordeaux-classed growth Château Lynch-Bages, this is a perfectly mature Christmas claret from a chateau that regularly outshines its relatively lowly cru bourgeois ranking.”
“The left bank cru borgeois wines can also be good bang for the buck wines in great vintages if your craving a cooler climate cabernet sauv based wine.”
“He vinifies it the same way he does premier cru white Burgundy from Meursault -- with about 50 percent of the wine fermented and aged in new oak barrels.”
The Washington Post: Wine: Michael Shaps, a Virginia-Burgundy blend
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cru’.
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3-Letter Scrabble Words Which Do Not ...
A list of 3-letter words which cannot be formed by adding a letter to a 2-letter word (see Ken Clark's word lists found at http://www.seattlescrab...
ace, act, aff, aft, apo, app, apt, auk, ava, ave, avo, azo and 225 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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3-letter Scrabble Words
aah, aal, aas, aba, abo, abs, aby, ace, act, add, ado, ads and 995 more...
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Michael Critz List
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morgue, devil, agnostic, gaze, cru, tonneaus, idly, ankh, ankle, halon, epode, fumy and 54 more...
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learnt from Scrabble
words I've seen played, raised eyebrows at and subsequently looked up — all real according to SOWPODS, the official international tournament word list
chiz, cru, fum, wop, dabster, alay, divi, tivy, weigela, izard, lamister, ket and 1 more...
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