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- noun Plural form of
cruse .
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Examples
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They were moving it from Carribean cruses to Mexican Riviera and Alaska cruses.
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She cruses towards every contest at 10,000 feet, then goes into a nosedive shortly after spending lots o 'face time with the voters.
Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Camp Hillary: Floridians Will Be Heard! 2009
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She cruses towards every contest at 10,000 feet, then goes into a nosedive shortly after spending lots o 'face time with the voters.
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Others led camels carrying cruses of oil, honey and flax.
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I do believe a lotta sisters got into the nunnery due to cruses on the Revs... lol... they would have found out too late that they were getting the raw end of the deal! lol..
8 RANDOM THINGS ABOUT ME. princesa 2007
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There were golden candelabra there, each having four golden bowls on the top, four ladders reaching to them, and four of the young priests with cruses of oil ready to supply them, each cruse holding one hundred and twenty logs of oil.
Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala Various
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[Sidenote: _Pomponius Lænis_.] serue his turne, and to furnish his cupbord for the time, being contented for himselfe to be serued in cruses & earthen vessels.
Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (4 of 8) The Fovrth Booke Of The Historie Of England Raphael Holinshed
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Huge vases stood upon the floor filled with the produce of their land -- offerings to the sun; perfume-censers, water-cruses, cistern-pipes, reservoirs, all were of the rich, ruddy metal.
The Golden Magnet George Manville Fenn 1870
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Many Davosers were there, the men of Andreas Gredig, Valär, and so forth; and all of these, on greeting Christian, forced us to drain a _Schluck_ from their unmanageable cruses.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series John Addington Symonds 1866
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Many Davosers were there, the men of Andreas Gredig, Valär, and so forth; and all of these, on greeting Christian, forced us to drain a _Schluck_ from their unmanageable cruses.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866
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