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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A proposed unit of consuming- power designed to reduce to a common basis the consuming-power of families which differ in sex- and age-composition. The consuming-power of an infant of less than one year is reckoned at unity, and one tenth is added for every year up to 20 for females and up to 25 for males.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.), Prov. Eng. The common guillemot.

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  • Mortuaries are great places – calm and quet once you get past the odd smell.

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  • Link"Rep. Jaquet, I'll try to remember that," Rep. Dennis Lake said, pronouncing it "jay-quet."

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  • It seems to me that you need to move to a more quet neighborhood.

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  • It's great news from Teletext, especially as filming as pretty recently completed on the film - that was pretty quet wasn't it?

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  • It's not jacket, juh-quet, jay-quet or jack-kay — though lawmakers have used all of those during her seven terms.

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  • So let ` s talk about Kate Hudson and Chris Robinson first, because this is a couple that, even by Hollywood standards, seemed stable, they seemed to be keeping it real, quet it didn ` t work out, as we now know.

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  • Silently, anonymously, he continued past the Ban-quet Hall and the Welcoming Tower, once festive buildings now muted with night and the recent news of an Istarian defeat.

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  • Here we might note an extreme compression of the scope of beauty, as contrasted with its expansion by Bosan - quet, and say that in the intervening half-century beauty has itself been swallowed up by the broader concept of expressive quality.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas MONROE C. BEARDSLEY 1968

  • Bosan - quet lived into the period when socialism was being publicly discussed in England, and in a lecture given to the Fabian Society in 1890 he quoted Hegel's justifi - cation of private property in the Philosophie des

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  • It was a regular Ban-quet, so, there was not getting away from Filet de Biff aux Champignons.

    Knocking the Neighbors George Ade 1905

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