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

...disclosed the agony to which his hero has long subjected him. Excerpt from Ballade to an Old Friend: I set Your Lordship in the House of Peers- / But you have brought me many a quid pro quo / Because we've been together twenty years . . . / Yet horrid Horry mawkish matelot, / Obnoxious more, I think, to friend than foe, / Your very name excruciates my ears- / I hope you roast in hell, Horatio, / Because we've been together twenty years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, may 28, 1956 | 5/28/1956 | See Source »

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