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"ref": "June/July 1996, Robert Silberman, “The stuff of art: Judy Onofrio”, in American Craft, pages 40–45",
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "kičozen",
"sense": "of questionable aesthetic value",
"word": "кичозен"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "of questionable aesthetic value",
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"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "of questionable aesthetic value",
"word": "kiĉa"
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{
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "of questionable aesthetic value",
"word": "kitsahtava"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "of questionable aesthetic value",
"word": "kruusattu"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "of questionable aesthetic value",
"word": "kitsch"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "of questionable aesthetic value",
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"word": "quétaine"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "of questionable aesthetic value",
"word": "kitschig"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "of questionable aesthetic value",
"word": "giccses"
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{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "kičest",
"sense": "of questionable aesthetic value",
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{
"code": "pl",
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"sense": "of questionable aesthetic value",
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"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "of questionable aesthetic value",
"word": "kitsch"
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{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "of questionable aesthetic value",
"word": "gýčovitý"
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{
"code": "es",
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"sense": "of questionable aesthetic value",
"word": "kitsch"
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"sense": "of questionable aesthetic value",
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"kitsch"
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