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  • noun Plural of.palladium.

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  • noun Plural form of palladium.

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Examples

  • It's called palladia, and it's manufactured by Pfizer's animal health division.

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  • Been grooving to some amazing palladia music all night here.

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  • These, as palladia, had been assigned the first place in the carriage, and the deputies sat before them on the back seat with becoming reverence.

    The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VIII (of X) - Continental Europe II. Various 1885

  • The constitution satisfied them in the main: they boasted of the palladia of their liberties, 'trial by jury' and the

    The English Utilitarians, Volume I. Leslie Stephen 1868

  • By instinct, rather than conscious reasoning, Englishmen had felt their way to establishing the 'palladia of our liberties': trial by jury, the 'Habeas Corpus' Act, and the substitution of a militia for a standing army.

    The English Utilitarians, Volume I. Leslie Stephen 1868

  • The French army of Flanders was gone, their artillery, their standards, their treasure, provisions, and ammunition were all left behind them: the poor devils had even fled without their soup-kettles, which are as much the palladia of the

    The History of Henry Esmond 1852

  • The French army of Flanders was gone, their artillery, their standards, their treasure, provisions, and ammunition were all left behind them: the poor devils had even fled without their soup-kettles, which are as much the palladia of the French infantry as of the Grand Seignior's

    The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • These, as palladia, had been assigned the first place in the carriage; and the deputies sat before them on the back-seat with becoming reverence.

    Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1790

  • I had not been to the Old Country since 1912, and in a way I felt just like Robert Louis Stevenson's Scotchman, who was celebrated in his poem, "The Scotchman's Return from Abroad", which emphasizes two thingsthat his absence from home brought him in contact with things he did not at all approve of, and there were two things that he could never get to suit his taste when away from homer-whiskey and religion (laughter); neither of them was nearly strong enough for him (laughter) and his great delight in getting home was to renew his acquaintance with those two palladia of his dear native country.

    The Old Country Re-Visited 1921

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