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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An old name of the gambets, now used in ornithology as a generic name of those birds.

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  • For the common custom of the Salic law is such, that the first incendiary or firebrand of sedition that flays the cow and wipes his nose in a full concert of music without blowing in the cobbler's stitches, should in the time of the nightmare sublimate the penury of his member by moss gathered when people are like to founder themselves at the mess at midnight, to give the estrapade to these white wines of Anjou that do the fear of the leg in lifting it by horsemen called the gambetta, and that neck to neck after the fashion of Brittany, concluding as before with costs, damages, and interests.

    Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518

  • gambetta: Cmon, Don, don't let the poll numbers stop you--We NEED ethiopia1a if it wasnt for TSA i wouden`t have a sex life at

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