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"neuter"
],
"word": "zgniłe miasteczko"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "gnilóje mestéčko",
"sense": "parliamentary borough represented in Parliament although the number of voters had diminished so greatly they were largely controlled by the main landowner; parliamentary constituency or electoral district in a similar situation",
"word": "гнило́е месте́чко"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "parliamentary borough represented in Parliament although the number of voters had diminished so greatly they were largely controlled by the main landowner; parliamentary constituency or electoral district in a similar situation",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "burgo podrido"
}
],
"word": "rotten borough"
}
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