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- noun A
traditional Portuguese bread served atPassover andEaster .
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Examples
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Perhaps the next day one of these new friends kindly sends in a present for the ladies of the party: a bouquet of natural flowers with the petals carefully gilded; a _folar_ or Easter cake, being a large loaf of sweetened bread, baked in a ring, and having whole eggs, shell and all, in the midst of it.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860 Various
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I spend my Christmas with family and friends of my parents, we make a great supper (eat herd, dreams, king cake, folar, reins, etc.) usually talking, watching TV and there are midnight opened the presents, is so Christmas in my family and friends of my parents!
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Throughout the evening talk, we see TV and eat sweets. typical Christmas (dreams, folar, king cake, queen cake, etc.).
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Wf: have already intimated, that there is an inconceivable number of funs, fyftems, and worlds, difperfed through infinite fpace; infomuch, that our folar fyllem, compared with the whole, appears but as an atom, and is almofl loft in the immeniity of the creation ..
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What a magnificent idea of the Creator and his works is prefented in tbil account of the folar fyftem!
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Among other problems to which this consideration of the variable bftre of the ftars muft direct our attention, one of the inoft impor - tant to os relates to the permanency of the folar light.
The Analytical Review, Or History of Literature, Domestic and Foreign, on an Enlarged Plan 1796
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Though it was pure, as the folar beam, the jiatural man cannot receive the things of the spirit, *.
A review of ecclesiastical establishments in Europe : containing their history ... : and an essay tending to shew both the political and moral necessity of abolishing exclusive establishments, with answers to some principal objections Whatman, James, 1741-1798 1796
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We have noticed that lakes, fituated at the foot of mountains of ice, are fubjeft in fummer to folar tides, that is, have a flood like the ocean.
Theory of tides, tr. [extr. from Études de la nature]. Jacques Henri Bernardin de Saint Pierre 1795
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Contains, on the fame plan, a fanrey of the folar fyflem, and of the fixed ftars.
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Of mere than folar glory; doubles wide Heaven's mighty cape; and then revifits earth.
The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790
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