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"ref": "1987, George Kearns, “Post-Colonial Fiction: Our Custom Is Different”, in The Hudson Review, volume 40, number 3, →DOI, page 493",
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"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "the decade of the 1920s",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"plural"
],
"word": "ugeiniau"
},
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"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "the decade of the 1920s",
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}
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"pos": "adj",
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"categories": [
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{
"text": "That bob haircut makes you look so twenties."
},
{
"ref": "1987, George Kearns, “Post-Colonial Fiction: Our Custom Is Different”, in The Hudson Review, volume 40, number 3, →DOI, page 493",
"text": "It tells the life of a Sicilian peasant girl, Teresa, who is brought to a village in Provence just after the First World War; is adopted by two very \"twenties\" lesbian ladies, one American, one English, who rebuild, maintain, and allow to decay, an old house called the Bishop's Palace.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2001, Toni McNaron, I Dwell in Possibility: A Memoir, Feminist Press at the City University of New York",
"text": "Old photos show her in typical twenties styles—tight-fitting black dresses with lace, low-slung wide belts, large ornamental pins on her equally large bodice, funny hats with feathers.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"From or evoking the 21st through 30th years of a century (chiefly the 1920s)."
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"rhymes": "-ɛntiz"
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"word": "'twenties"
}
],
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