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}
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"French countable nouns",
"French entries with incorrect language header",
"French lemmas",
"French masculine nouns",
"French nouns",
"French terms borrowed from Latin",
"French terms derived from Ancient Greek",
"French terms derived from Latin",
"French terms with IPA pronunciation",
"French terms with audio links",
"fr:Monarchy"
],
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"sceptre"
],
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"sceptre",
"sceptre#English"
]
],
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]
}
],
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},
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