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"text": "In 1588, Edmund Spenser became an undertaker in the first Elizabethan plantation, receiving the forfeited Irish estate of Kilcolman Castle.",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "ἐγχειρητής"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "one who undertakes or commits to doing something",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "redemptor"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"undertaker (disambiguation)"
],
"word": "undertaker"
}
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