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Example sentences for: epithet
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The epithet was apparently already being used elsewhere in the movie, and so the line did not survive.
In Scotland only two exist; Erica cinerea and Erica tetralix . In spite of Linnaeus' epithet (`ashy'), the former is called bell heather by all Scots and fine-leaved heath by many botanists; the latter is often called bell heather , too, by noncritical observers (since the flowers are very bell-like), but is known as the cross-leaved heath by those who pay more attention to the strongly two-ranked arrangement of the tiny needlelike leaves.
Magens Bay is a beautiful stretch of sand with a slight kink in the center, which gives it the epithet “heart-shaped.”
So do, surely, BeeWee intensifications, doubling the epithet; a Windward Islander may call a fruit sweet-sweet , one adjective not sufficing to express feelings about it enough.
I wonder, though, why the Baughan (and Vaughan ) entries do not mention that bach was an epithet that distinguished a son and father, a kind of Welsh equivalent of junior . I also have my doubts about how ordinary users of this dictionary will cope with its metalanguage.
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