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"expansion": "intriguing (plural intriguings)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English dated terms",
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1909, Thomas Longueville, The Curious Case of Lady Purbeck",
"text": "In all these negotiations, and caballings, and intriguings, the person most concerned, Frances Coke, the beauty and the heiress, was only the ball in the game.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"An intrigue."
],
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"intrigue"
]
],
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"(dated) An intrigue."
],
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"dated"
]
}
],
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},
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],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
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