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"text": "wrap the sandwich up in foil",
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"word": "αλουμινόχαρτο"
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"word": "carta stagnola"
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"sense": "thin sheet of metal",
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"sense": "thin sheet of metal",
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"code": "ka",
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"word": "ფოლგა"
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"code": "es",
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"code": "cmn",
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},
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},
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}
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"2": "folaig",
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},
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{
"categories": [
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],
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{
"english": "glossing Latin armillam (“bracelet”)",
"text": "foil",
"type": "example"
}
],
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"ring, bracelet"
],
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"ring",
"ring"
],
[
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"bracelet"
]
],
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]
},
{
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"pigsty"
],
"links": [
[
"pigsty",
"pigsty"
]
],
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"feminine"
]
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Brill Publishers"
],
"word": "foil"
}
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"called_from": "form_descriptions/1089",
"msg": "suspicious unhandled suffix in Old French: 'foil oblique singular or', originally 'foil oblique singular or m'",
"path": [
"foil"
],
"section": "Old French",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "foil",
"trace": ""
}
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"called_from": "form_descriptions/1089",
"msg": "suspicious unhandled suffix in Old French: 'foil oblique singular or', originally 'foil oblique singular or m'",
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"foil"
],
"section": "Old French",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "foil",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1147",
"msg": "suspicious related form tags ['masculine', 'canonical']: 'foil oblique singular or' in 'foil oblique singular, m (oblique plural fouz or foilz, nominative singular fouz or foilz, nominative plural foil)'",
"path": [
"foil"
],
"section": "Old French",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "foil",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "inflection/2466",
"msg": "accepted heuristic header: table cell identified as header and given candidate status, AND the cleaned text is in LANGUAGES_WITH_CELLS_AS_HEADERS[Old Irish]; cleaned text: Initial mutations of a following adjective: *ᴴ = triggers aspiration *ᴸ = triggers lenition *ᴺ = triggers nasalization",
"path": [
"foil"
],
"section": "Old Irish",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "foil",
"trace": ""
}
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"msg": "inflection table: IF WITHOUT ELSE EVALS False: foil/Old Irish 'radical' base_tags=set()",
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"subsection": "noun",
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"trace": ""
}
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],
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"title": "foil",
"trace": ""
}
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],
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"subsection": "noun",
"title": "foil",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "inflection/1826",
"msg": "inflection table: empty tags for foil",
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],
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}
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