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Echt Ekht Adjective Real Authentic Genuine Entered English

Back echt \ekht\
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adjective
Real; authentic; genuine.

[Echt entered English from the German word of the same spelling in the early 1900s.]

This is true or echt because I used a calculator. - Patricia Wood, Lottery, 2008

Outside, there is the kind of veiled, wintry sunshine which never manages to warm the chilly air, stirred by a light and capricious, echt Berlin breeze. - Alain Robbe-Grillet, Repetition, 2003

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