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- noun A white tropical
tern (Cygis candida).
Etymologies
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Examples
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What was the answer, other than etymology (isn't goeland from Breton?)?
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I was just wondering about goeland and mouette the other day, really!
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What was the answer, other than etymology isn't goeland from Breton?
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I was just wondering about goeland and mouette the other day, really!
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Above all, we eagerly longed for the (goeland), which appeared several times tempted to settle on the end of our machine.
Naufrage de la frigate la Méduse. English Jean Baptiste Henri Savigny 1818
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It is certain that we could not be far from it: for the butterflies continued, on the following days, to come and flutter about our sail, and the same day we had another sign equally positive: for we saw a (_goeland_) flying over our raft.
Naufrage de la frigate la Méduse. English Jean Baptiste Henri Savigny 1818
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