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The "Blue Blood" Cruise
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antiphrasis
(en)
(noun) the usually ironic or humorous use of words in senses opposite to the generally accepted meanings (as in “this giant of 3 feet 4 inches”)
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All such things inform us, by antiphrasis, about a certain ideal nature of everyday life
on the wondrous way in which the press recounts the quotidian behaviour of the royals on the cruise
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8 years ago
All such things inform us, by antiphrasis, about a certain ideal nature of everyday life
on the wondrous way in which the press recounts the quotidian behaviour of the royals on the cruise
confirm
8 years ago
laicize
(en)
(verb) to reduce to lay status / (verb) to put under the direction of or open to the laity
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apsos
(en)
(noun) any of a Tibetan breed of small dogs that have a dense coat of long hard straight hair, a heavy fall over the eyes, heavy whiskers and beard, and a well-feathered tail curled over the back
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