See arabesque on Wiktionary
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},
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],
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}
{
"categories": [
"French 3-syllable words",
"French adjectives",
"French countable nouns",
"French entries with incorrect language header",
"French feminine nouns",
"French lemmas",
"French nouns",
"French terms borrowed from Italian",
"French terms derived from Italian",
"French terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "it",
"3": "arabesco"
},
"expansion": "Borrowed from Italian arabesco",
"name": "bor+"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Italian arabesco.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "arabesques",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {},
"expansion": "arabesque (plural arabesques)",
"name": "fr-adj"
}
],
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"lang_code": "fr",
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{
"categories": [
"French relational adjectives",
"French terms with obsolete senses"
],
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"Arabic (of Arabic peoples)"
],
"links": [
[
"Arabic",
"Arabic"
]
],
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"(obsolete, relational) Arabic (of Arabic peoples)"
],
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"obsolete",
"relational"
]
}
],
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},
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}
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