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"ref": "1921, E.V. Lucas, Highways & Byways in Sussex",
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"text": "Your Grace, Madame Lanier wishes you to have nuncheon with her.",
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"code": "eu",
"lang": "Basque",
"sense": "afternoon snack",
"word": "askari"
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"ref": "1901, George Douglas Brown, The House with the Green Shutters",
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"ref": "1921, E.V. Lucas, Highways & Byways in Sussex",
"text": "Lurgashall, on the road to Northchapel, is a pleasant village, with a green, and a church unique among Sussex churches by virtue of a curious wooden gallery or cloister, said to have been built as a shelter for parishioners from a distance, who would eat their nuncheon there.",
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"text": "Your Grace, Madame Lanier wishes you to have nuncheon with her.",
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"(now dialectal, archaic) A drink or light snack taken in the afternoon; a refreshment between meals."
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"lang": "Basque",
"sense": "afternoon snack",
"word": "askari"
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"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "afternoon snack",
"word": "kolaziono"
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{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "afternoon snack",
"word": "manĝeto"
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"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "afternoon snack",
"word": "intermanĝeto"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "afternoon snack",
"word": "iltapäivän välipala"
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"sense": "afternoon snack",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "goûter"
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"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "afternoon snack",
"word": "merenda"
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"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "afternoon snack",
"tags": [
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"sense": "afternoon snack",
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"word": "podwieczorek"
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"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "afternoon snack",
"tags": [
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"word": "lanche"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "póldnik",
"sense": "afternoon snack",
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"word": "по́лдник"
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "afternoon snack",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "merienda"
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{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "afternoon snack",
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"word": "mellanmål"
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{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "pidvečirok",
"sense": "afternoon snack",
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"word": "підвечірок"
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"word": "nuncheon"
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