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This answer was so different from anything he had expected that for the moment he could not express his astonishment, and was obliged to content himself with asking where Sutton College was It is what they call a fresh-water college," replied the young man, "and I do not wonder that you do not know where it is.

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  1. adjective New to one's experience; not encountered before.
  2. adjective Novel; different: a fresh slant on the problem. See Synonyms at new.
  3. adjective Recently made, produced, or harvested; not stale or spoiled: fresh bread.
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  • The tools Valadez had given her were slick and fast and factory-fresh, the state of somebody's art, somewhere; but what Bianca mostly found herself using was her pocket system's crippled copy of the Nazario family automation. —  FSF,December2007
  • Tradition grants Cap'ns the right to name a fresh-found star system.
  • The air's fresh, pre-industrial fresh, the kind of fresh you only get once it's been filtered through the lungs of several million herd animals and a couple of dozen Indian tribes (this is as fresh as nature gets, no doubt about it). —  F ;SF - vol 101 issue 03 - September 2001
  • Ted Testerman, a long-serving Sullivan County, Tenn., commissioner, served an even longer tenure at Blakely-Mitchell, where he started as a salesman in 1954, fresh from the Korean War, at a princely $50 a week. —  News for Richmond Times-Dispatch
  • Yeh Aaj is what is called a fresh, young Bollywood song. is the darkest song of the album, with a throbbing electronic feel to it and Shankar doing what he does best -- merging raga-based vocals with 21st century loops. —  rediff.com
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  1. Middle English, from Old English fersc, pure, not salty, and from Old French freis (feminine fresche), new, recent, of Germanic origin.

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  1. from Middle English fresh, fresch, fressh, fress, and transposed fersh, ferss, etc., from Anglo-Saxon fersc, fresh (applied to water) (transposed from fresc), = Dutch versch = Middle Low German varsch, versch = Old High German frisc, Middle High German vrisch, German frisch = Icelandic ferskr, fresh (of food, meat, fish, fruit, etc., of smell, etc.), = Swedish färsk = Danish fersk, fresh, sweet, etc. From the same ult. source are frisk, a doublet of fresh, stud fresco, from Italian fresco = Spanish Portuguese fresco = Old French fres, freis, frais, fris, feminine fresche, fraische, French frais, fem, fraîche, fresh, cool: see fresco.
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