See flair on Wiktionary
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"text": "For all his directorial flair, though, Jones may well be best remembered for creating such characters as Arthur “Two Sheds” Jackson, Cardinal Biggles of the Spanish Inquisition, the Scottish poet Ewan McTeagle and the monstrous musician rodent beater in the mouse organ sketch who hits specially tuned mice with mallets.",
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"text": "to dress with flair",
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"text": "You know what, Stan, if you want me to wear 37 pieces of flair, like your pretty boy over there, Brian, why don't you just make the minimum 37 pieces of flair?",
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"word": "eleganță"
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"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
}
],
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},
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}
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{
"glosses": [
"smell; odor"
],
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"smell",
"smell"
],
[
"odor",
"odor"
]
]
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{
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"sense of smell"
],
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"sense",
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],
[
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"smell"
]
]
}
],
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}
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},
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"name": "inh"
}
],
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{
"form": "flairs",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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{
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"10": "",
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"7": "",
"8": "",
"9": "",
"cat2": "",
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"head": ""
},
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"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {},
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}
],
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{
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"Pages with entries",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned",
"Requests for translations of Scots quotations",
"Scots entries with incorrect language header",
"Scots lemmas",
"Scots nouns",
"Scots terms derived from Old English",
"Scots terms inherited from Old English",
"Scots terms with quotations"
],
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{
"ref": "2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin, published 2009, page 140:",
"text": "He skited it over the flair maybe if it was a jotter and it was you to go and get it.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"floor"
],
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"floor",
"floor"
]
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/fler/"
}
],
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{
"word": "fluir"
}
],
"word": "flair"
}
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"called_from": "form_descriptions/1089",
"msg": "suspicious unhandled suffix in Old French: 'flair oblique singular or', originally 'flair oblique singular or m'",
"path": [
"flair"
],
"section": "Old French",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "flair",
"trace": ""
}
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"called_from": "form_descriptions/1089",
"msg": "suspicious unhandled suffix in Old French: 'flair oblique singular or', originally 'flair oblique singular or m'",
"path": [
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],
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"subsection": "noun",
"title": "flair",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1147",
"msg": "suspicious related form tags ['masculine', 'canonical']: 'flair oblique singular or' in 'flair oblique singular, m (oblique plural flairs, nominative singular flairs, nominative plural flair)'",
"path": [
"flair"
],
"section": "Old French",
"subsection": "noun",
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}
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