Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A trap made of wicker-work, used in the Mediterranean for catching fish.
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Examples
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And he stayed in contact with his ex pat friends in Montparnasse, painted their portraits eg Kisling C1925 and treated their portraits with respect.
Archive 2008-12-01 Hels 2008
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And he stayed in contact with his ex pat friends in Montparnasse, painted their portraits eg Kisling C1925 and treated their portraits with respect.
Chaim Soutine, sad expressionist Hels 2008
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Women were washing linen, men sitting on the doorsteps mending _nasse_.
A Spirit in Prison Robert Smythe Hichens 1907
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Banquet_ is in effect only a free rendering of the immortal fifteenth century satire, assigned on no very solid evidence to Antoine de la Salle, the _Quinze Joyes de Mariage_, the resemblance being kept down to the recurrence at the end of each section of the same phrase, "in Lob's pound," which reproduces the less grotesque "dans la nasse" of the original.
A History of Elizabethan Literature George Saintsbury 1889
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The thugs of AFA in the spring of 2008 destroyed the car of an elderly woman and wrote "nasse
Gates of Vienna 2009
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The thugs of AFA in the spring of 2008 destroyed the car of an elderly woman and wrote "nasse
Gates of Vienna 2008
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