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"ref": "2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 73",
"text": "Calais was one of the ‘principal treasures’ of the crown, of both strategic and economic importance. It was home to the staple, the crown-controlled marketplace for England's lucrative textile trade, whose substantial customs and tax revenues flooded into Henry's coffers.",
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"ref": "1961 October, “Editorial: The importance of the \"Roadrailer\"”, in Trains Illustrated, page 577",
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"sense": "basic food",
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"word": "podstawowe pożywienie"
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"roman": "osnovnój prodúkt pitánija",
"sense": "basic food",
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"sense": "basic food",
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"ref": "2010, The Economist, Jul-Aug 2010, p. 27",
"text": "In most countries, rubbish makes headlines only when it is not collected, and stinking sacks lie heaped on the streets. In Britain bins are a front-page staple.",
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"text": "Tow is flax with short staple."
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[
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[
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"sense": "length of fibers in wool",
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