See roost in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian:",
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"(figurative) To spend the night."
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"code": "ca",
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"word": "ajocar-se"
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"sense": "settle on a perch in order to sleep or rest",
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"sense": "settle on a perch in order to sleep or rest",
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"ref": "1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 1886, →OCLC:",
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