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- noun The
bark of atree .
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Examples
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I had on treebark camou, gloves, mask and brown leather boots.
Sit Down, Shut Up 2008
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By the third section things have taken a shocking turn for the worse: lashed by famine and relentless rains, our narrator is working for the government, evacuating the floodlands, surviving on rats and treebark while rescuing what spoils he can from abandoned mansions.
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I sat sleepy eyed one morning enduring yet another cardboard and treebark bran flavored bowl of breakfast with milk, 2 percent of course, and I stared at the carton.
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I am just going to have to go get a treebark manicure to celebrate!
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HOMOGEN-EITY. and the face in the treebark feigns afear.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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There was a large number of them, all naked, none armed, brown as treebark.
Pastwatch, the Redemtion of Christopher Columbus Card, Orson Scott 1996
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Qwilleran stepped out onto the veranda and inhaled the moist smells of fog and drenched treebark, noting that only three of the twenty-five steps to the parking lot were visible; the rest were shrouded in mist.
The Cat Who Moved A Mountain Braun, Lilian Jackson 1992
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Ancient and gnarled as treebark, she peered at Jaric with eyes turned pearly white by cataracts.
Stormwarden Wurts, Janny 1989
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On the afternoon of the sixth of Snowfall, in the year 5221, Tobas of Telven and Karanissa of the Mountains were married on a deserted hilltop somewhere in eastern Dwomor, in an improvised ceremony invoking whatever gods might hear, with Peren the White as their only witness and with the required document inscribed on a piece of treebark.
With a Single Spell Watt-Evans, Lawrence, 1954- 1987
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Having honed his survival skills from his isolated cabin outside Lincoln, Montana, the by-then 68 year-old had succeeded in killing three people and injuring 23 others with bombs that often included bits of treebark and wood, a symbolic protest against what he saw as the destruction of the wilderness around his home.
Signs of the Times 2010
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