See spectacle on Wiktionary
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"text": "VVith ſcoffes and ſcornes, and contumelious taunts, / In open Market-place produc't they me, / To be a publique ſpectacle to all: / Here, ſayd they, is the Terror of the French, / The Scar-Crovv that affrights our Children ſo.",
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"concert"
]
],
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"masculine"
]
},
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"French terms with usage examples"
],
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{
"english": "They went down on their knees crying for the deaths of their fellow countrymen at this atrocious sight.",
"text": "Devant un tel spectacle ils se jetèrent à genoux pleurant les morts de leurs compatriotes.",
"type": "example"
}
],
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"a sight, a showing, a display"
],
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"sight",
"sight"
],
[
"showing",
"showing"
],
[
"display",
"display"
]
],
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"masculine"
]
}
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"ipa": "/spɛk.takl/"
},
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"audio": "Fr-spectacle.ogg",
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}
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}
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"2": "spectacle"
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"lang": "Middle English",
"lang_code": "enm",
"pos": "noun",
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{
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"Middle English lemmas",
"Middle English nouns",
"Middle English terms with quotations",
"Pages with 3 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Requests for translations of Middle English quotations"
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{
"ref": "1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Wyfe of Bathes Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:",
"text": "Pouert a spectacle is, as thynketh me / Through which one may his very frendes se",
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}
],
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"something that helps understanding"
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}
],
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}
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