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- noun informal A
pearly king orpearly queen .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Well, for starters there’s the excruciating lyric about covering your pearlie whites in bling: “open up my mouth and you see more carats than a salad†indeed!
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Lyche droppes of pearlie dew, lemed [5] the quyvryng brine.
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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The pearlie dropps standing within her faire eyes,
A Book of Old Ballads — Complete Beverley Nichols 1941
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He cam '; and, O, for o' human freen's o 'a' he was the pearlie --
Robert Louis Stevenson: a record, an estimate, and a memorial 1871
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pearlie buzzed up: Ex-cop Peterson faces arraignment in wife's murder (AP) 8 seconds ago 2009-05-18T07: 37: 27-07: 00
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pearlie buzzed up: Ex-cop Peterson faces arraignment in wife's murder (AP) 8 seconds ago 2009-05-18T07: 37: 27-07: 00
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