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over-embellished — adjective excessively elaborate or showily expressed a writer of empurpled literature many purple passages an over embellished story of the fish that got away • Syn: ↑empurpled, ↑purple • Similar to: ↑rhetorical … Useful english dictionary
Claire Peacock — Coronation Street character Portrayed by Julia Haworth Created by Kieran Roberts Duration 2003–11 … Wikipedia
empurpled — adjective excessively elaborate or showily expressed a writer of empurpled literature many purple passages an over embellished story of the fish that got away • Syn: ↑over embellished, ↑purple • Similar to: ↑rhetoric … Useful english dictionary
Five Star — Infobox musical artist Name = Five Star Img capt = Five Star in 1989 (from left to right), Stedman, Denise, Lorraine, Doris and Delroy Img size = Landscape = Background = group or band Alias = Origin = Romford, Essex, England Genre = Pop, R B… … Wikipedia
empurpled — adjective a) made purple, especially having a purple complexion because of rage etc. b) over embellished or flowery … Wiktionary
all my eye and peggy martin — (UK) An idiom that appears to have gone out of use but was prevalent in the English north Midlands of Staffordshire, Cheshire and Derbyshire from at least the turn of the 20th century until the early 1950s or so. The idiom s meaning is literally… … The small dictionary of idiomes
Edinburgh — EDINBURGH, a city, the seat of a university, and the metropolis of the kingdom of Scotland, situated in longitude 3° 10 30 (W.), and latitude 55° 57 29 (N.), about a mile (S. by W.) from Leith, 40 miles (S.S.W.) from Dundee, 42 (E. by N.) from … A Topographical dictionary of Scotland
Glasgow — GLASGOW, a city, the seat of a university, and a sea port, having separate jurisdiction, locally in the Lower ward of the county of Lanark, and situated in longitude 4° 15 51 (W.), and latitude 55° 52 10 (N.), 23 miles (E. by S.) from Greenock … A Topographical dictionary of Scotland
furniture — furnitureless, adj. /ferr ni cheuhr/, n. 1. the movable articles, as tables, chairs, desks or cabinets, required for use or ornament in a house, office, or the like. 2. fittings, apparatus, or necessary accessories for something. 3. equipment for … Universalium
metalwork — metalworker, n. /met l werrk /, n. objects made of metal. [1840 50; METAL + WORK] * * * Useful and decorative objects fashioned of various metals. The oldest technique is hammering. After с 2500 BC, casting was also used, molten metal being… … Universalium
