terrene
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Blue-eyed Mrs. Slocum, president of Boat Transit Co., is no terrene "Tugboat Annie," does not drive a truck herself.
From Time Magazine Archive
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It is a picture of the coronation of George V. by one Fernand Piret, a French aviator—so the story goes—who never before dabbled in terrene arts.
From Pot-Boilers by Clive Bell
Wherever men are, they must have a solid platform on which to stand; they must have a stable terrene whereon their food may grow, and this the Moon could supply.
From Are the Planets Inhabited? by E. Walter (Edward Walter) Maunder
For their first day's breakfast on the new regimen, the old woman treated them with a terrene of oatmeal gruel.
From The Life of Benjamin Franklin With Many Choice Anecdotes and admirable sayings of this great man never before published by any of his biographers by Mason Locke Weems
We must now leave the marine department for awhile, in order to attend to exclusively terrene concerns.
From An Old Sailor's Yarns by N. (Nathaniel) Ames