See prefect on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 196:",
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"tags": [
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"word": "prefetto"
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"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "préfet"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "the head of a prefecture, whether a Japanese prefecture, French department, or Balkan county",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Präfekt"
},
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "the head of a prefecture, whether a Japanese prefecture, French department, or Balkan county",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "prefetto"
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"code": "la",
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"masculine"
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"code": "pt",
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"sense": "the head of a prefecture, whether a Japanese prefecture, French department, or Balkan county",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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},
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"sense": "the head of a prefecture, whether a Japanese prefecture, French department, or Balkan county",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "prèfekt"
},
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"code": "yue",
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"sense": "a school pupil in a position of power over other pupils",
"word": "風紀"
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"code": "yue",
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"roman": "fung¹ gei²",
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"code": "it",
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