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Examples
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The Pole was ombrageux and easily offended; he disliked democracies, in fact mankind in the bulk stunned him.
Chopin : the Man and His Music James Huneker 1890
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And all who came near him learned soon from experience that, as Liszt told Lenz, he was ombrageux.
Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician Niecks, Frederick 1888
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