dross
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Still: was that an argument, or a performance of Glengarry Glen Dross?
From The Guardian • Sep. 16, 2016
Verdict Dross swords ... a kitsch glitch for Malkovich The 1980s cartoon Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds is considerably more faithful to literature and to history than this.
From The Guardian • Oct. 21, 2010
Heaven's gold love is, though mixt with earth's alloy— Dross, that betimes a needful part doth play In nature's wise and true economy.
From Elias An Epic of the Ages by Whitney, Orson F.
External applications were made to "drive the worms out of the Brain as well as Dross out of the Stomack."
From Customs and Fashions in Old New England by Earle, Alice Morse
Dross, dros, n. the scum which metals throw off when melting: waste matter: refuse: rust.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
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