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The word burlesque comes from the Latin word burra meaning nonsense and the Italian word burla meaning mockery.
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The word burlesque comes from the Latin word burra meaning nonsense and the Italian word burla meaning mockery.
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Nutt had had his lambing-pens, that year, down in the hollow where there was "burra" from the winds.
'Murphy' A Message to Dog Lovers Ernest Gambier-Parry 1894
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His privately published memoir, A Life of Fulfilment, provides an interesting account of his experiences as a non-white "burra sahib" in British India – a district head and later a sessions judge.
Samuel Martin Burke obituary Reginald Massey 2010
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King listened in silence, and his prisoners, watching him through the barred compartment windows, formed new and golden opinions of him, for it is common knowledge in the "Hills" that when a burra sahib speaks to a chota sahib, the chota sahib ought to say, "Yes, sir, oh, yes!" at very short intervals.
In The Time Of Light dj barber 2010
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You will learn that the suffix 'burgh' is pronounced 'burra' e.g. Edinburgh.
Notice of Revocation of Independence JDsg 2007
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Distribution, habitat preference and conservation status of the Red Lark Certhilauda burra in Cape Province, South Africa.
Nama Karoo 2008
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In all over 400 plant species have been recorded, including 3 endemic species: the gameleira Ficus noronhae, the mulungo Erythina velutina and the burra leiteira Apium escleratium.
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True to form, as soon as I stepped into the classroom, the name-calling began: “panza de burra,” they would call me, which means Donkey Belly.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Teens Talk Middle School Jack Canfield 2008
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O caso é o seguinte: uma menina muito burra se deixa filmar/fotografar pelo namorado fazendo sexo despudoradamente, briga com o namorado (que está na posse da gravação), não raro traindo-o com outro. e este, indignado publica no YouTube as cenas picantes e íntimas.
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