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"ref": "1991 December 1, Rudy Grillo, “Who's The Top?”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 20, page 8:",
"text": "[…] in the form of the pussyfooted Alexis Smith. While referring to [Cole] Porter's 1946 film (alleged) biography, Night and Day, she mentions there were \"certain aspects of the story which at that time they could not do.\" Was \"certain aspects\" a euphemism for gay? Smith's misplaced politeness here is truly retrograde.",
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"ref": "c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:",
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"sense": "of a celestial body: to show retrogradation",
"word": "perääntyä"
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"sense": "of a celestial body: to show retrogradation",
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"roman": "bâzgaštan",
"sense": "(military) to retreat or withdraw from a position",
"word": "بازگشتن"
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