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{
"form": "begging letters",
"tags": [
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"name": "en-noun"
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"pos": "noun",
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"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "1850 May, Charles Dickens, “The Begging-Letter Writer”, in Household Words",
"text": "I, the writer of this paper, have been, for some time, a chosen receiver of Begging Letters.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A letter in which the writer asks for money."
],
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"links": [
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],
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"writer",
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],
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"money",
"money"
]
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "letter asking for money",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "tiggerbrev"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "letter asking for money",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "tiggarbrev"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "letter asking for money",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "tiggarbrev"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"begging letter"
]
}
],
"word": "begging letter"
}
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"ref": "1850 May, Charles Dickens, “The Begging-Letter Writer”, in Household Words",
"text": "I, the writer of this paper, have been, for some time, a chosen receiver of Begging Letters.",
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"A letter in which the writer asks for money."
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"translations": [
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "letter asking for money",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "tiggerbrev"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "letter asking for money",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "tiggarbrev"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "letter asking for money",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "tiggarbrev"
}
],
"word": "begging letter"
}
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