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cumbrous
cumbrous, a. (ˈkʌmbrəs) Forms: 4–7 cumberous, (8 cumb'rous), 4 Sc. cumrouss, 5 comberus, -ose, comborous, comerus, comorows, cumbrusse, 5–6 comerous, 5–7 comberous, combrous, 6 commerous(e, cummerouse, coumbreous, 5– cumbrous. [f. cumber n. + -ous: cf. obs. F. combreux (Palsgr.).] † 1. Presenting ob...
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Budgerow
Budgerows were 'large and commodious, but generally cumbrous and sluggish keelless boats, used for journeys on the Ganges'.
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accumbrous
† aˈccumbrous, a. Obs. Also 5 acombrous [for earlier encomberous: see accumber and -ous; cf. cumbrous.] Cumbrous, oppressive, troublesome.c 1392 Chaucer Compl. Venus 42 (Tanner MS.) A litill tyme his gifte is agreable But ful acombrous is the vsynge [other MSS. encoumberouse, encumbrous, encomberous...
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Chiffonier
It was one of the many curious developments of the mixed taste, at once cumbrous and bizarre, which prevailed in furniture during the Empire period in
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Samuel Gompers Memorial
This may seem a cumbrous, slow method to the impatient, but the impatient are more concerned for immediate triumph than for the education of constructive
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Carlo Giuseppe Guglielmo Botta
French influences of the day, is one of the marked features of his style, which is not infrequently impassioned and eloquent, though at the same time cumbrous
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John Healey (translator)
The ‘Epictetus’ is terse and clear, and the cumbrous periods of the ‘City of God’ are typical Elizabethan prose.
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The Eighth Day (novel)
All other beginnings and endings are arbitrary conventions — makeshifts parading as self-sufficient entireties… The cumbrous shears of the historian cut
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lumberly
lumberly, a. (ˈlʌmbəlɪ) [f. lumber v.1 + -ly1.] Clumsy, cumbrous.1805 Coleridge Lett. (1895) II. 488 The latter word shall have become an incurable synonym, a lumberly duplicate. 1855 Robinson Whitby Gloss., Lummerly or Lumberly, awkward, cumbrous. 1880 J. A. H. Murray Address to Philol. Soc. 30 Eng...
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Independent Working Class Education
"Proletcult is practically synonymous with what is generally known in this country by the cumbrous name of Independent Working-Class Education"
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