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Armagnac N Type French Brandy Extremely Chastened Realize

Word Armagnac
Definition n. A type of French brandy.
Sentence He had been extremely chastened to realize that although he originally came from a world which had cars and computers and ballet and Armagnac, he didn’t, by himself, know how any of it worked.
Source Mostly Harmless, Douglas Adams

Tags: language::english, topic::vocabulary

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