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- noun Alternative spelling of
urtext .
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Examples
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TIGANA by Guy Gavriel Kay (actually, anything by Guy Kay but TIGANA is the ur-text of shades-of-grey modern fantasy)
Building a Comprehensive SF&F Collection Lou Anders 2009
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Obviously, it is an ur-text of the American enthrallment with Paris.
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Laurel and Hardy's Battle of the Century, described by the Guardian's Xan Brooks as "the ur-text of custard pie movies", could keep Gregg's in business for years, while Buster Keaton worked tirelessly on the art of the perfect pie chuck.
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Obviously, it is an ur-text of the American enthrallment with Paris.
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Obviously, it is an ur-text of the American enthrallment with Paris.
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I'm betting the film was The Front Page, the evergreen ur-text for all fictional stabs at the fourth estate.
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The idea of Eggers, the presiding genius of this whole child-centered moment, diving into the ur-text of Zoom-era upbringing, seems so spot-on that it's in danger of imploding.
An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs. 2008
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The term appears first in the ur-text to Matilda, The Fields of
Notes on 'Attached to Reading: Mary Shelley's Psychical Reality' 2008
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(Here, as with so much else with tie-ins, Star Trek is the ur-text.)
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The ur-text for this sort of swaggering, cooking-is-hell memoir is Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential.
He Ate, She Ate 2010
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