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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A red wine grown in the department of Nièvre in France, similar in flavor to Bordeaux, and improving with age.

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  • In the mean xime we dream not at all of this i we have no fenfe of our. part deliverance no fear of our prefent danger, no aoxiety for that to cosne; becaufe we netiherfee the gieatnefs of our miferies, nor the greatntfe of our dangers, no r. the great nefs of thofe evil*

    Moral Essays: Contain'd in Several Treatises on Many Important Duties 1677

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