See interregnum in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1835, William Gilmore Simms, The Partisan, Harper, Chapter XIV, page 179:",
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"ref": "1995, Nick Hornby, High Fidelity, London: Victor Gollancz, →ISBN, page 17:",
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