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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A variety of rebate-plane used in finishing rebates in joiners' work.

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Examples

  • The press supplied the details: he was a poet of vaguely modern style, perhaps homosexual, by the name of Guillaume Apollinaire, who aroused suspicion when a friend of his who worked at the Louvre either sold him or gave him as a present a small Iberian statue, which he in turn had stolen from the museum.

    Valfierno Martín Caparrós 2008

  • The press supplied the details: he was a poet of vaguely modern style, perhaps homosexual, by the name of Guillaume Apollinaire, who aroused suspicion when a friend of his who worked at the Louvre either sold him or gave him as a present a small Iberian statue, which he in turn had stolen from the museum.

    Valfierno Martín Caparrós 2008

  • Thirteenth-century kings of England and France were sometimes depicted as shocked, irate, and vengeful on hearing the rumors, as shown by Philip Augustus's "rancor" in Guillaume's text amd by Henry III's outburst in the ballad of Hugh of Lincoln.

    A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

  • Charles-Edouard Guillaume, is undeniably the foremost metrologist of today.

    Nobel Prize in Physics 1920 - Presentation Speech 1967

  • If ruth had taken a moment to check Guillaume’s blog, she would have seen that Guillaume is French and that English is his second language.

    The French bloggers « BuzzMachine 2005

  • Then on we went once more, still very slowly, still stopping again and again, sometimes for an hour at a stretch, until, half numbed by the cold, weary of stamping our feet, and still ravenous, we reached the little town of Sillé-le-Guillaume, which is not more than eight or nine miles from Conlie.

    My Days of Adventure The Fall of France, 1870-71 Ernest Alfred Vizetelly 1887

  • Some time before, a shepherd lad of Gévaudan, by name Guillaume, while tending his flocks at the foot of the Lozère Mountains and guarding them from wolf and lynx, had a revelation concerning the realm of

    The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 Anatole France 1884

  • In 1898, well before he made his name, Lutyens was given the commission by a French banker called Guillaume Mallet - Antoine Bouchayer-Mallet's great-grandfather.

    BBC News - Home 2011

  • As a general thing the writers were at once painters and calligraphers, such as Guillaume de St. Evroult, "Scriptor et librorum illuminator"

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

  • The most prolific writer on the Rule of St. Francis was St. Bonaventure, who was compelled to answer fierce adversaries, such as Guillaume de Saint-Amour and others.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

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