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pluvial

[ploo-vee-uhl] / ˈplu vi əl /
ADJECTIVE
rainy
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STRONGEST


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The Barnetts began playing with bassist Thomas Hein and keyboardist Sophie Sleigh-Johnson in 2004 and released their first EP, Now Pluvial, in 2006.

From The Guardian • Oct. 7, 2010

Pluvial conditions possibly rendered the habitat even at lower altitudes uninhabitable for the mice, with the result that none continued to live in the transverse volcanic zone, but only north and south thereof.

From Speciation and Evolution of the Pygmy Mice, Genus Baiomys by Packard, Robert L.

Pluvial of St. Silvester, 319; at Bologna, 320; at Aix, 351; Daroca, 376.

From Needlework As Art by Alford, Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess

The Pluvial in the Basilica of St. John Lateran at Rome, he speaks of as “having much the appearance of the celebrated Opus Anglicanum.”

From Needlework As Art by Alford, Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess




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