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17 nautical terms (boats, equipment, etc.)
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colleen
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synonyms: chit, backfisch, ingenue, sylph, babe in the woods ???
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Definition:a young, single woman
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there was not a colleen inside iv his jurisdiction but was breakin’ her heart wid the fair love iv him.
Humours of Irish Life: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. Billy Malowney's Taste of Love and Glory
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in the boreens and green lanes the colleens with their swains strolled what times the strains of the organtoned melodeon Britannia metalbound with four acting stops and twelvefold bellows, a sacrifice, greatest bargain ever...
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the cop (what shadow of us was he after?) gave the little colleen his best smile
Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita
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