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Word: manneken (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...London air to sweat out a whole year's hangovers. The cavernous chambers were abustle with well-stacked nautch girls, brushing bare bellies with Indian waiters serving cha-patties. The only washroom was carefully labeled "Co-educational-On Your Honor Please!" Behind the bar a lily-twined manneken-pis arched a thoughtful stream at a stone death's head that looked like many a guest would feel on the morning after. There were two dozen freshly made beds spotted strategically for the incapable or the incautious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Bea's Blast | 9/22/1958 | See Source »

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