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Dull gray North American thrushes noted for its beautiful song
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solitaire
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Solitaire is a one-act ballet created by Kenneth MacMillan in 1956 for the Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet (later the Royal Ballet), London. The music is by Malcolm Arnold : his two sets of English Dances , with two new dances specially composed by Arnold, ...
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n. a gem (usually a diamond) in a setting by itself extinct flightless bird related to the dodo [syn: Pezophaps solitaria ] dull gray North American thrushes noted for its beautiful song a card game played by one person [syn: patience ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1500, "widow;" 1716, "solitary person, recluse," from French solitaire , from Latin adjective solitarius "alone, lonely, isolated" (see solitary ). Sense of "a precious stone set by itself" is from 1727. Meaning "card game played by one person" is first ...
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Par malheur, les plus vrais, les plus bienfaisants des sentiments ne peuvent vivre que dans un grand silence solitaire, au plus obscur de nos chairs, de nos sangs, de nos brumes.
He placed it upon the tray table beside the unfinished game of solitaire and the finished glass of Scotch, which he must now remember to call whisky when asking at the bar, and this was one of the few things he was unlikely to forget.
Behind him came the white horse Snowball with the glittery Madame Solitaire riding sideways on its bare back, facing the crowd, then the dapple-gray Bubbles with Clover Lee doing the same, both the steeds stepping high and prettily and nodding their heads so their plumes danced.
We turned first to the nearest relatives of the dodo for our supplemental DNA -- from the solitaire specimens that are still extant, and from the Nicobar pigeon.
In spite of it all, Rhion slept for hours, a breathless uncomfortable sleep on the eight-inch beam, tormented by cloudy dreams, while, unable to smoke, unable to pace, Sara fidgeted her way through endless games of solitaire and her father covered all the plaster within his considerable arm reach in a scrawled carpet of numerological abracadabra.
Ryan found Michael sitting at a table playing solitaire with a dogeared pack of cards.
Solitaire Station, out beyond the orbit of Mars, where the lightships are assembled and launched, vanishing in thousand-mile-long shatterings, and it happened to a man by the name of William Stamey, otherwise known as Barnacle Bill.
It all happened not so along ago on Solitaire Station, out beyond the orbit of Mars, where the lightships are assembled and launched, vanishing in thousand-mile-long shatterings, and it happened to a man by the name of William Stamey, otherwise known as Barnacle Bill.
A coat of rosy velvet, embroidered with gold spangles, a vest to match, embroidered likewise in the richest fashion, breeches of black satin, diamond buckles, a solitaire of great value on her little finger, and on the other hand a ring: such was her toilet.
She carefully put the opal set back in its box and reached for a yellow diamond solitaire ring.
He had both hands in his trousers pockets and seemed to Enderby to be playing the solitaire game known as pocket billards.
That demoted the former closing act, Captain Hotspur and Madame Solitaire, to next-to-close.
He had dealt with the anastomosis of the carotid in Didus ineptus, and now he came to the loves of the solitaire.
They were not the bones of a solitaire, far less those of a dodo, as he had half hoped, hut a mixed set of commonplace storks, cranes, and possibly one brown pelican.
If you have a deck of cards in a safe place, you should assume the enemy will at least entertain the thought that you are using Solitaire.