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- noun Plural form of
Cantab .
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Examples
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The 'Cantabs' scored three tries to one in the opening stanza, with centre Robbie Fruean, and locks Luke Romano and Isaac Ross crossing for tries.
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For Yalies to ridicule Mark Zuckerberg, or for Cantabs to lampoon George W. Bush '68 is one thing -- but to poke fun at real suffering is inexcusable.
Harvard Parodies "That's Why I Chose Yale," Makes Annie Le Barb (WATCH) The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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For Yalies to ridicule Mark Zuckerberg, or for Cantabs to lampoon George W. Bush '68 is one thing -- but to poke fun at real suffering is inexcusable.
Harvard Parodies "That's Why I Chose Yale," Makes Annie Le Barb (WATCH) The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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For Yalies to ridicule Mark Zuckerberg, or for Cantabs to lampoon George W. Bush '68 is one thing -- but to poke fun at real suffering is inexcusable.
Harvard Parodies "That's Why I Chose Yale," Makes Annie Le Barb (WATCH) The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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We are afraid that the Cantabs have been at the bottom of John Brown's fine writing.
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Cantabs, who, mistaking him for his comrade, had whispered into his ear what had happened during the night to his daughter, is thus comically described --
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 Various
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A team of Cantabs had played the Black-and-Whites just a year previously, and Harry was one of them.
Scottish Football Reminiscences and Sketches David Drummond Bone
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Cantabs on one occasion to take a rather brutal advantage of his nervous dread of fire -- there was also that nice reserve which gave to Milton, when _he_ was at Cambridge, the nickname of the "lady of Christ's."
A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century 1886
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The whole company, ladies, artists, politicians, and diners-out, formed a silent circle round the two Cantabs, and, with a short break for lunch, never stirred till the bell warned them that it was time to dress for dinner.
Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay Volume 1 George Otto Trevelyan 1883
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Cantabs of the thirteenth century could have dreamt of what was coming!
The Coming of the Friars Augustus Jessopp 1868
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