vade mecum
Example Sentences
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Distributed in more than a billion copies, the so-called Little Red Book remains the fundamental vade mecum of every citizen of the Chinese People's Republic.
From Time Magazine Archive
Far from bridging the communications gap between East and West, this vade mecum is sure to cause confusion if not some international incidents.
From Time Magazine Archive
Literary Anecdotes forms a handy vade mecum of great and terrible superlatives.
From Time Magazine Archive
Such a vade mecum Abbe Dimnet gracefully provides in the form of the True, the Beautiful and the Good, as approved by philosophers, improved by artists, lived by the saints.
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She spoke eight languages fluently, including Arabic, and was a perfect "vade mecum" of interesting information which she well knew how to impart.
From A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell by Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason, Sir
