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Sound
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name
A town and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A canvas-like cotton fabric, often coated with latex rubber, used to stiffen and protect the lower part of trousers, dresses, etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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History
From Proto-Brythonic, ultimately probably from Latin vicus (“town”) + a diminutive suffix (cf. Welsh gwig + -an).
From Wigan (“town in Greater Manchester”).
