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Examples
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When out in Athy the other afternoon, we managed to score some plaintain from the local African grocery.
An orange question | Diane Duane's weblog: "Out of Ambit" 2006
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One of the few downsides to the plaintain is the difficulty in peeling them.
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One of the few downsides to the plaintain is the difficulty in peeling them.
Archive 2006-02-01 Tripp 2006
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Maybe in Panama we got the "plaintain" and the rosemary.
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Maybe in Panama we got the "plaintain" and the rosemary.
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I always get a Small combo meal, since one time I ate a whole Medium and got a food coma worse than the Tina fried pork/plaintain sandwich coma.
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They get up in the morning, they go to their farms, they produce their cassava or yam or plaintain.
Ghana Speaking (III): Kofi Sam's Model of African Self-Sufficiency 2010
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They get up in the morning, they go to their farms, they produce their cassava or yam or plaintain.
Christopher Lydon: Ghana Speaking (III): Kofi Sam's Model of African Self-Sufficiency 2010
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Except of course for these sweet potato and plaintain chips that I was pretty thrilled with.
Canadian Thanksgiving. The British way. Michele 2007
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A brisk May breeze was blowing, which swayed the crests of the plaintain-trees.
Les Miserables 2008
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