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"(obsolete or dialectal) Happiness, fortune."
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"ref": "1862, George Borrow, chapter XXXV, in Wild Wales Its People‚ Language and Scenery (Fiction), Read Central, archived from the original on 2013-10-31",
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"ref": "1897, William Morris, chapter XIV, in The Water of the Wondrous Isles (Fantasy), published 2005, page 245",
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"ref": "1897, William Morris, chapter XIV, in The Water of the Wondrous Isles (Fantasy), published 2005, page 245",
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