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"lang": "Venetian",
"sense": "artificial mound of earth and stone",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "terajo"
},
{
"code": "vec",
"lang": "Venetian",
"sense": "artificial mound of earth and stone",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "àrzare"
},
{
"code": "vec",
"lang": "Venetian",
"sense": "artificial mound of earth and stone",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "àrxen"
},
{
"code": "vec",
"lang": "Venetian",
"sense": "artificial mound of earth and stone",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "àrđen"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "artificial mound of earth and stone",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "clawdd"
}
],
"word": "embankment"
}
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