augural
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Murphy, winner of the augural Players Tour Championship two weeks ago, had been widely tipped to go all the way in China having disposed of top-ranked John Higgins in the quarter-finals.
From BBC ● Apr. 2, 2011
Pursuant to my promise I send you by mail with this, the Eagle Penholder and pen with which I have written my in augural address.
From Time Magazine Archive
Shultz may have laid the Falklands ghost to rest during a private meeting with another in augural guest: Argentina's newly elected civilian President, Raul Alfonsin.
From Time Magazine Archive
Queen Mother Nazli was a devotee of crystal balls, card reading, the scrutiny of tea leaves, and the augural dissection of pigeons.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had frequently peacocks at his banquets, which he first served up at a grand augural feast, and which, says Varro, were more commended by the luxurious, than by men of probity and austerity264.
From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II by John Dunlop
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