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- adjective
Eye dialect spelling ofclean .
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Examples
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God help us, you an 'me, but we'll niver hit again the pillow as clane an' pure as she!
CHAPTER 19 2010
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‘The pa’son then took off his clane white surplice, and went away; and the others consulted upon the best means for keeping the matter a secret, which it was not a very hard thing to do, the place being so lonely, and the hour so early.
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You never knowed a young feller keep his smock-frocks so clane; very honest too.
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“Oh, your honour is clane mistaken; there is always an illigant fire and an illigant bed too.”
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Their ways would never do for people who want to have done with lying and staring, and have always kept themselves clane from striopachas.
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It was threescore and tin exactly, for he counted the carcasses one by one, and laid them out on a clane plate, for to view them.
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And with that the king, sure enough, drew out his swoord and took the head off the dirty brute, as _clane_ as a new pin.
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I saw you count the clane clothes that was washed in the house.
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I'll be wid him in the twinklin 'ov a bedpost, the minit I take my face from behind my beard, an' get on my clane flax; but stop a bit, 'says I;
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 390, September 19, 1829 Various
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There's clane sthraw in the barn, an 'I'll slape there till mornin'. '
Adrift in the Ice-Fields Charles W. Hall
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