Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A trial or experimental coin, not intended for circulation.
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So I took a six-gore skirt from a pattern I had NOT lost the pieces from McCalls 3036, which I don't have a link to right now, did some rudimentary math and some pattern-piece surgery, and put together the skirt.
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So I took a six-gore skirt from a pattern I had NOT lost the pieces from McCalls 3036, which I don't have a link to right now, did some rudimentary math and some pattern-piece surgery, and put together the skirt.
June 2008 2008
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Our lanthorn gleamed defiance to that brag of night eternal, that pattern-piece of the last triumph of the oldest enemy of man -- Blackness the Rider, who is older than the hoary star.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro
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