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purist

[pyoor-ist] / ˈpyʊər ɪst /


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The Purist Suspend can be operated by the puck-shaped remote to turn the faucet on and off and adjust the temperature.

From The Verge • Jan. 3, 2022

Purist fans of the understated movie musical “Once” may never really accept the more outgoing stage adaptation, but seeing it live definitely packs its own pleasure.

From Washington Post • Feb. 12, 2019

Grab bars from Kohler’s Purist line, set at right angles that aesthetically underline the room’s linearity, are never out of reach.

From The Wall Street Journal • Aug. 23, 2018

There he founded the Harrow Jazz Purist Society; played mandolin in the Crawdads, a skiffle band; and in 1951 wrote his first scholarly article, on gospel songs, for Jazz Monthly.

From New York Times • Aug. 17, 2017

The Purist, therefore, does not mend nature, but 190 receives from nature and from God that which is good for him; while the Sensualist fills himself “with the husks that the swine did eat.”

From The Stones of Venice, Volume II (of 3), by Ruskin, John




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