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noun
Diplôme d'étude de langue française, a French-language qualification.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: education
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noun
A mine, quarry, pit dug; ditch.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, archaic, dialectal
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noun
A charge representing a square sod of turf, traditionally taking the form of a simple square (e.g. in the middle of an escutcheon), although modernly sometimes represented with the grass in profile.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: government, heraldry, hobbies, lifestyle, monarchy, nobility, politics
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noun
Alternative form of delft (“style of earthenware”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
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noun
an excavation; usually a quarry or mine
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: excavation
History
From Middle English delf, delve, dælf (“a quarry, clay pit, hole; an artificial watercourse, a canal, a ditch, a trench; a grave; a pitfall”), from Old English delf, ġedelf (“delving, digging”) and dælf (“that which is dug, delf, ditch”), from Proto-West Germanic *delban (“to dig”), from Proto-Germanic *delbaną (“to dig”). More at delve.
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