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- noun Attributive form of
water buffalo
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Examples
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For three days this weekend, some 1,500 men—from 11-year-old striplings to improbably muscled Goliaths—donned long, thick, black pants made of water-buffalo and cowhide.
How Do You Dress a Turkish Wrestler? In Olive Oil and Leather Britches Marc Champion 2011
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Mr. Yaseen won the barbecue championship in 2009 with a grilled water-buffalo soola a traditional marinade and spatchcocked chicken with different spices for the leg and breast.
A Smoking-Hot Trend Bruce Palling 2011
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It is fair to say my lunch last Saturday was eclectic: three plump, glossy Jersey oysters; a water-buffalo burger; a scoop each of hazelnut and raspberry hand-made artisan gelato; and a fair trade Columbian coffee blend straight from its Edinburgh-based roaster.
The art of the real 2009
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She conceived, directed and designed Way of Snow, a trilogy about cultural dislocation and madness, using masked actors, three-dimensional rod-puppets and shadow puppets — some made from the traditional carved water-buffalo hide, others from modern Plexiglass.
Julie Taymor. 2009
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The gods were afraid of this water-buffalo bull because neither Vishnu nor Shiva could prevail against him.
Archive 2009-09-01 photographerno1 2009
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It is fair to say my lunch last Saturday was eclectic: three plump, glossy Jersey oysters; a water-buffalo burger; a scoop each of hazelnut and raspberry hand-made artisan gelato; and a fair trade Columbian coffee blend straight from its Edinburgh-based roaster.
The art of the real 2009
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It is fair to say my lunch last Saturday was eclectic: three plump, glossy Jersey oysters; a water-buffalo burger; a scoop each of hazelnut and raspberry hand-made artisan gelato; and a fair trade Columbian coffee blend straight from its Edinburgh-based roaster.
The art of the real 2009
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It is fair to say my lunch last Saturday was eclectic: three plump, glossy Jersey oysters; a water-buffalo burger; a scoop each of hazelnut and raspberry hand-made artisan gelato; and a fair trade Columbian coffee blend straight from its Edinburgh-based roaster.
The art of the real 2009
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I am wearing open sandals, cheap water-buffalo sandals.
The Lamp in the Mausoleum Lurie, Alison 2006
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Now Maya smiled for the first time since she began listening to the conversation, struck by the mental image of a herd of water-buffalo surrounding an injured calf to protect it from a tigress.
Phoenix And Ashes Lackey, Mercedes 2004
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