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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Plural of staurus.

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Examples

  • I remember saying at last that if indeed I was destined to write about him, the supposed "stauri" had better have at least a happy ending.

    Enoch Soames: A Memory of the Eighteen-nineties 1916

  • I remember saying at last that if indeed I was destined to write about him, the supposed "stauri" had better have at least a happy ending.

    Enoch Soames: a memory of the eighteen-nineties Max Beerbohm 1914

  • I remember saying at last that if indeed I was destined to write about him, the supposed 'stauri' had better have at least a happy ending.

    Seven Men Max Beerbohm 1914

  • Fr egzarmpl, a riter ov th time, naimed Max Beerbohm, hoo woz stil alive in th twentith senchri, rote a stauri in wich e pautraid an immajnari karrakter kauld "Enoch Soames" -- a thurd-rait poit hoo beleevz imself a grate jeneus an maix a bargin with th Devvl in auder ter no wot posterriti thinx ov im!

    Enoch Soames: A Memory of the Eighteen-nineties 1916

  • Fr egzarmpl, a riter ov th time, naimed Max Beerbohm, hoo woz stil alive in th twentith senchri, rote a stauri in wich e pautraid an immajnari karrakter kauld "Enoch Soames" -- a thurd-rait poit hoo beleevz imself a grate jeneus an maix a bargin with th Devvl in auder ter no wot posterriti thinx ov im!

    Enoch Soames: a memory of the eighteen-nineties Max Beerbohm 1914

  • 'Fr egzarmpl, a riter ov th time, naimd Max Beerbohm, hoo woz stil alive in th twentieth senchri, rote a stauri in wich e pautraid an immajnari karrakter kauld "Enoch Soames" -- a thurd-rait poit hoo beleevz imself

    Seven Men Max Beerbohm 1914

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