See spaniel in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"lang": "Afrikaans",
"sense": "dog breed",
"word": "patryshond"
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "dog breed",
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"masculine"
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
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"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
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"word": "perro de aguas"
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"code": "th",
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"sense": "dog breed",
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"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "dog breed",
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"ref": "c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):",
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"ref": "Edward James and Farah Mendlesohn (2003) The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction, page 65",
"text": "The genre which differed from the world in order to advocate a better one - or the genre which spanielled at heel the sensationalist virtual reality world we will now arguably inhabit till the planet dies - had become by 2000, in triumpth or defeat or both, an institution for the telling of story."
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