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astringent

[uh-strin-juhnt] / əˈstrɪn dʒənt /


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Astringent leadership is Churchill calling on Britons to "brace ourselves to our duties."

From Time Magazine Archive

Astringent, ironic, mockingly antiheroic, the play is a black comedy with the purgative power of tragedy, but Anne Bancroft lacks the granitic authority that the central role demands.

From Time Magazine Archive

Astringent, ironic, mockingly antiheroic, the play is a black comedy with the purgative power of tragedy, although Anne Bancroft lacks something of the granitic authority that the central role demands.

From Time Magazine Archive

Astringent preparations of various kinds are used by many trappers, but they are by no means necessary.

From Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making by Gibson, William Hamilton

Astringent, as-trin′jent, adj. binding: contracting: strengthening.—n. a medicine that causes costiveness.—v.t.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various




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