Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
window-oyster .
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Examples
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There is the frail, flat, translucent “window-shell” (Placuna), the valves of which fit so closely that the poor little inhabitant is squeezed to a wafer, a film, a fragment of muscle.
Tropic Days 2003
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There is the frail, flat, translucent "window-shell" (Placuna), the valves of which fit so closely that the poor little inhabitant is squeezed to a wafer, a film, a fragment of muscle.
Tropic Days 1887
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