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defile

[dih-fahyl] / dɪˈfaɪl /


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My grandmother Defile who died with a bald head in a prison, because God had given her wings.

From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat

The Lancone Defile has to this day an evil name.

From The Isle of Unrest by Merriman, Henry Seton

And he tore open the envelope which Colonel Gilbert had handed to the peasant a couple of hours earlier in the Lancone Defile.

From The Isle of Unrest by Merriman, Henry Seton

I shall go down to the Lancone Defile.

From The Isle of Unrest by Merriman, Henry Seton

The travellers proceeded on their way down the Defile of Gondo.

From Oxford Lectures on Poetry by Bradley, Andrew Cecil




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