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superficies
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Definition:The surface; the exterior part, superficial area, or face of a thing.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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also spelled superfices
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As if a woman were a mere colored superficies! You must wait for movement and tone.
George Eliot. Middlemarch
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The superfices was composed of several bits of wood, about the bigness of a die, but some larger than others.
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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