See serein on Wiktionary
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"msg": "suspicious unhandled suffix in Old French: 'serein oblique singular or', originally 'serein oblique singular or m'",
"path": [
"serein"
],
"section": "Old French",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "serein",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1089",
"msg": "suspicious unhandled suffix in Old French: 'serein oblique singular or', originally 'serein oblique singular or m'",
"path": [
"serein"
],
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"subsection": "noun",
"title": "serein",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1147",
"msg": "suspicious related form tags ['masculine', 'canonical']: 'serein oblique singular or' in 'serein oblique singular, m (oblique plural sereinz, nominative singular sereinz, nominative plural serein)'",
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"serein"
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