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- noun Plural form of
colosseum .
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Examples
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Why live with dull old standard black or grey plastic ones when you could have coral, or sea anemones, or toggles in the shape of trumpets, or little bells, or miniature colosseums?
Archive 2009-01-01 2009
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We saw the main sights of the area, although it is pretty out of the way (as evidenced in the airport technology) - Pula has one the best preserved Roman colosseums in the world, not to mention the Roman amphitheatre and the hilltop fortress dating back to who knows when.
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They make one think of colosseums and aqueducts and bridges, and they constitute doubtless, in Venice, the most pardonable specimen of the imitative.
Italian Hours Henry James 1879
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Romulus laid out its walls with a plow, nor of the later time when, bathed in its own and others 'blood, it dictated laws to the world -- no, it was a Rome of our own times with the difference that in place of marble monuments and colosseums it had its monuments of sawali and its cockpit of nipa.
The Social Cancer Jos�� Rizal 1878
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This was one of the hardest colosseums I have ever played in.
unknown title 2009
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I have found certain strategies in this guide very useful and effective when beating the tougher colosseums and opponents in this game, so overall its pretty accurate.
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