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"ref": "1977, Angela Carter, The Passion of New Eve",
"text": "Spiders had woven their vague trapezes between the friable heads of dead peonies in enormous glass jars streaked with tide marks where the water had evaporated long ago.",
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"ref": "1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian, Avignon Quintet edition, Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 1020",
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"word": "тре́скающийся"
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"sense": "easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder",
"word": "ezilgen"
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"ref": "1890, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough",
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"(of soil) Loose and large-grained in consistency."
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"hyphenation": [
"fria‧ble"
],
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Rhymes:Spanish/able",
"Rhymes:Spanish/able/2 syllables",
"Spanish 2-syllable words",
"Spanish adjectives",
"Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
"Spanish epicene adjectives",
"Spanish lemmas",
"Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation"
],
"glosses": [
"friable, crumbly"
],
"links": [
[
"friable",
"friable#English"
],
[
"crumbly",
"crumbly"
]
],
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈfɾjable/"
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈfɾja.β̞le]"
},
{
"rhymes": "-able"
}
],
"word": "friable"
}
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