excelsior

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  1. noun Slender, curved wood shavings used especially for packing.

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  • I am not bothered excelsior, but i am real and therefore have mass. —  WordPress.com News
  • About: excelsior is a GTK2 theme engine that features merged tool and menu bars, gradients on entries and troughs, a gradient on the MainWindow, random effects, and more. —  freshmeat.net Releases
  • It never stopped One night Cis and he, bent over the lip of the window, she upholstered on a certain excelsior-filled pillow which was very dear to her, and he padded by Big Tom's cast-offs, had attempted to realize what Mrs. Kukor had said. —  The Rich Little Poor Boy
  • The easiest stuffings to procure are hay, excelsior, or paper; among others which should be covered to keep them in place are wool, mineral wool, cork, sawdust and cotton. —  The Community Cook Book
  • Layer after layer of paper and excelsior were lifted out, and all they could find was more wrappings. —  Mary Ware's Promised Land
 

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  1. Originally a trademark.

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  1. from Latin excelsior, masculine and feminine comparative (neuter excelsius) of excelsus, elevated, lofty, high, past participle of excellere, rise, be lofty, be eminent: see excel.
  2. from excelsior, adjective
 

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/ɛkˈsɛlsɪɔr/
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