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Word: alfin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1962-1962
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Usage:

...sees that the annotator is afflicted with something more than boobery. Sanely or not, Kinbote has it firmly in his head that he is the deposed king of "a distant northern land" called Zembla, and that he was known to his adoring subjects as Charles the Beloved, son of Alfin the Vague, grandson of Thurgus the Turgid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Russian Box Trick | 6/1/1962 | See Source »

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