See tenour on Wiktionary
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"expansion": "tenour oblique singular, f (oblique plural tenours, nominative singular tenour, nominative plural tenours)",
"name": "fro-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Old French",
"lang_code": "fro",
"pos": "noun",
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{
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{
"extra": "tenure",
"word": "teneure"
}
],
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"Anglo-Norman"
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of teneure (tenure)"
],
"links": [
[
"teneure",
"teneure#Old_French"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of teneure (tenure)"
],
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"alt-of",
"alternative"
]
}
],
"word": "tenour"
}
Download raw JSONL data for tenour meaning in All languages combined (7.9kB)
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