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"ref": "1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow",
"text": "The rubble waits him, sloping up to broken rear walls in a clogging, an openwork of laths pointlessly chevroning-flooring, furniture, glass, chunks of plaster, long tatters of wallpaper, split and shattered joists […].",
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"ref": "1995, Alan Warner, Morvern Callar, Vintage, published 2015, page 21",
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"word": "deszczułka"
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"sense": "a thin, narrow strip, fastened to the rafters, studs, or floor beams of a building, for the purpose of supporting a covering of tiles, plastering, etc.",
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