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"text": "It was secondhand‹make that fourth- or fifthhand. This was from an era before any kind of copyright, when librettists were almost expected to steal from other works.",
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"sense": "person who writes a libretto",
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"masculine"
],
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"word": "Librettist"
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"word": "librettista"
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"sense": "person who writes a libretto",
"word": "либреттошы"
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"sense": "person who writes a libretto",
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},
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],
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}
],
"word": "librettist"
}
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