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

...good. I loved to see Peter's strong teeth clamping down over them, demolishing them; I felt demolished too, and would order more. "Garcon," I would say to the diseased French girl who presided behind the marble-topped, crumb-lined counter, "por favor, una fumata fur meine fraulein." "Mynheer," she would always reply, smiling, and bring us another of Peter's favorite pear-filled, chocolate-covered fumates. You do not get such fumates everywhere. We would stay there in the warm pink exciting womb-like garret until the basketball jocks dropped in for pear-filled fumates, bringing with them...

Author: By M.h. Reeves, | Title: A Chimney of Nasturtiums | 12/17/1958 | See Source »

...Mynheer von Stoendyck, a Belgian inventor whose perfect command of the English language is simply not credited by his British hostess. She helpfully translates everything that is said to him into broken English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Edwardian Laughter | 8/27/1951 | See Source »

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