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(A.D. 456) the term ro or takadono (lofty edifice) is, for the first time, applied to the palace of Anko in Yamato.
A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886
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Apéro is short for apéritif, and geant means giant.
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Well what can we expect from the traitorous rightwing? ro ro is about the best they have to offer.
Think Progress » VIDEO: The Extreme, Violent Rhetoric Of GOP Lawmakers 2010
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Local radio shows have instructed listeners to contact their senators tovoice their displeasure overthe bill, and callers were reporting they had either called ro attempted to call their Senators.
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Wait...so if "apéro" is short for "prendre un verre" then I guess it eliminates the need for a verb, which means it's a verb itself, non?
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After numerous attempts to get a comment from Archbishop Gilbert, Newsday instead caught up late last evening with Monsignor Cuthbert Alexander on a retreat at the private ranch in Mayaro of the late Jack Ramoutarsingh, who was a devout Catholic.
newsday.co.tt 2009
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He also told me some good news; the Australian Tiger snake cannot possibly be in Trinidad, so the Veterinarian in Mayaro who said that our dog was killed by a "Tigre" snake was incorrect.
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The ro is usually a square shallow cavity, lined with metal and half-filled with ashes, in which charcoal is lighted.
Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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Orthographia purior eft, habet alias ro in vaph arma, aa & Oft pro 4.
Jus ecclesiasticum novum sive Arnaeum constitutum anno Domini MCCLXXV.: Kristinnrettr in nyi edr ... Grímur Jónsson Thorkelín 1777
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Using "ro" as a color indicative (which may have expanded to "iro", or "color"), it can be seen that these two words indicate two colors that are opposite.
observation in language tragic_elegance 2007
colleen commented on the word ro
"An artificial language devised by Rev. Edward P. Foster, fo Marietta, Ohio, about 1906. Ro rejects all existing word roots and is based entirely 'on the analysis and classification of ideas.'"
December 14, 2006