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&ca.

phrase · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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Meaning 1

Archaic form of etc..

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: alt-of, archaic

Examples

  • quoted in 2016, Margaret Landon, Anna and the King of Siam I hope on my [part] the affairs of trade &ca. will be well regulated with the foreign and native people, betterly than upon the time of my predecessors, but I hope you will allow me the time for reformation of custom of country and great ceremony of the funeral service to the dead body of my esteemed brother the late King.

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