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Middlemarch vocabulary
13 rare vocabulary words
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pinfold
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► definition
Definition:a small impound lot for wayward grazing animals
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► uses
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Kent. I love thee not.
Osw. Why then, I care not for thee.
Kent. If I had thee in Lipsbury Pinfold, I would make thee care for me.
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He felt sure that she had been suffering from the strain and conflict of self-repression; and that she was likely now to feel herself only in another sort of pinfold than that from which she had been released.
George Eliot. Middlemarch
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