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"text": "She looked wan and worried, and then finally she was not in court one day, and later [...] he learned that she was confined to her room with a bad cold.",
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"ref": "1993, Elaine Crowley, The Ways Of Women, London: Orion, →ISBN:",
"text": "Then I’d tell myself there were plenty of oul wans and oul fellas in work who never got it and that I’d be lucky like them and escape. Only I didn’t. I don’t want to die.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2005, David McWilliams, The Pope’s Children: Ireland’s New Elite, Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, →ISBN; republished as The Pope’s Children: The Irish Economic Triumph and the Rise of Ireland’s New Elite, Chichester, West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons, 2008, →ISBN, page 4:",
"text": "Growing up in Dún Laoghaire in the 1980s, I remember all the hard men were sinewy, scrawny lads, hence the local description ‘more meat on a seagull’. The reason was simple: they were undernourished. [...] The young wans, despite a couple of babies, were more or less the same, pinched, flat-chested and drawn.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2015, Kevin Maher, “A Yuletide Bender”, in Last Night on Earth, London: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN:",
"text": "He comes streaming out from under the stage, this time a feckin show-stopper, almost literally, because there’s eighty different acrobats above him, [...] for this mad New Year’s show that has no story at all, other than this wan in silky robes who goes out with this fella in silky robes, and they’re from different enemy tribes of lads and wans in silky robes, and when they find out, they have this huge, aerial, acrobatic donnybrook that ends when everyone wraps their silk around each other up in the air, and then lets it all fall down to the ground, where the audience are, to show them how we're all part of one big silky family, and not to be fighting in the future.",
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"A girl or woman."
],
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"girl",
"girl"
],
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"woman",
"woman"
]
],
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"(Ireland) A girl or woman."
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"word": "lass"
},
{
"word": "maid"
},
{
"word": "girl"
},
{
"word": "woman"
}
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}
],
"word": "wan"
}
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"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English non-lemma forms",
"English verb forms",
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"Pages with entries",
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"word": "win"
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"simple past of win."
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"(obsolete) simple past of win."
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}
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