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ormer

[awr-mer] / ˈɔr mər /
NOUN
abalone
Synonyms
STRONGEST
STRONG


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The man before the court last April, under indictment for fraud and embezzlement, was Philipp Auerbach, f ormer head of the Jewish restitution office in Bavaria.

From Time Magazine Archive

My only regret is that you failed to acknowledge the author of so much of what is now coming into fruition: ormer Mayor Raymond Tucker.

From Time Magazine Archive

For one with artistic tastes and love of colour like myself, the interior of an ormer shell is a veritable fairy grotto.

From Jethou or Crusoe Life in the Channel Isles by Ernest R. (Ernest Richard) Suffling

Then followed a scraping with ormer shells, and, in a few minutes, the black pig was divested of his hairy coat.

From The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story by John Roussel

Hennie Penny, you see, had come bravely through dire troubles of her own, and tribulation softens the heart as it does the ormer.

From Pearl of Pearl Island by John Oxenham




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