See perlustration in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1962, Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire:",
"text": "Yes, after a thorough perlustration of the loot that Andron and Niagarushka had obtained from the Queen's rosewood writing desk (mostly bills, and treasured snapshots, and those silly medals) a letter from the King did turn up.",
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"feminine"
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"word": "перлюстра́ция"
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"etymology_text": "From perlustrate.",
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "thorough examination of a document or of correspondence",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Perlustration"
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"sense": "thorough examination of a document or of correspondence",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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"sense": "thorough examination of a document or of correspondence",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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"law"
],
"word": "перлюстра́ция"
},
{
"code": "sh",
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"sense": "thorough examination of a document or of correspondence",
"tags": [
"Latin",
"feminine"
],
"word": "perlustracija"
}
],
"word": "perlustration"
}
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