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"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d3/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-backlight.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-backlight.wav.mp3",
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"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "illuminate something from behind",
"word": "taustavalaista"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "illuminate something from behind",
"word": "éclairer par derrière"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "illuminate something from behind",
"word": "rétro-éclairer"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "illuminate something from behind",
"word": "illuminare dal di dietro"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "illuminate something from behind",
"word": "retroiluminar"
}
],
"word": "backlight"
}
{
"called_from": "page/1498/20230118",
"msg": "''Light shining from a source be'[...]' gloss has examples we want to keep, but there are subglosses.",
"path": [
"backlight"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "backlight",
"trace": ""
}
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