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📚 Fichu, noun. ❓ Definition: A small triangular shawl, worn round a woman's shoulders and neck. ❗️ Examples: 1. Originally the neckline had shown her chest, but now a thin fichu tried its best to cover the raw marks on her delicate skin. 2. Annette was dreading it profusely, reluctantly putting on her fichu and allowing Garnier to help her into a waiting carriage. 3. The canvas in which the woman, wearing a pink dress and greenish fichu, is set against flowered wallpaper (private collection, Fig.13) was made explicitly as a gift for Gauguin. 4. In Chloridia, designs for the Queen as Chloris reveal the breasts so completely that one assumes that they must have been at least partly covered by some kind of fichu. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Rucksack, noun. 🔉 /ˈrʌksak/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A bag with shoulder straps which allow it to be carried on someone's back, typically made of a strong, waterproof material and widely used by hikers. ❗️ Examples: 1. In addition, no bags, rucksacks & backpacks larger than eight inches square will be allowed beyond the ticketing and security checkpoints or into the grounds of the Belfry. 2. He was carrying a small rucksack and a small green carrier bag. 3. He was wearing a green jacket and dark coloured waterproof trousers and had been carrying a grey rucksack. 4. On the other side, the backpackers, tanned and fit, casually shoulder their rucksacks and adjust their sunglasses. 5. Once all the cash has been collected, it will also be used to purchase necessary items such as rucksacks to carry the equipment, training manuals and oxygen cylinders. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Cry for the moon, phrase. ❓ Definition: Ask for what is unattainable or impossible. ❗️ Examples: 1. There must be no more self-pity, no more time wasted on crying for the moon. 2. If she cried for the moon, he'd borrow every ladder in the parish and lash 'em together to get up. 3. When my brother was a baby, he cried for the moon and would not be comforted. 4. When the baby cries for the moon, you do not give him what he wants. 5. I haven't cried for the moon, and have been sensible in my demands; but there has nevertheless been this sense of boredom with everything, with my family and with my work. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

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📚 Macramé, noun. ❓ Definition (mass noun): The art of knotting string in patterns to make decorative articles. ❗️ Examples: 1. The exhibition featured bobbin lace, patchwork and quilting, cross stitch, canvas work embroidery, macramé, and even miniature furniture. 2. You know something's a trend when the most fashionable street in Islington, north London, opens a knitting shop, whose classes are booked out weeks in advance and whose clientèle is more Miu Miu than macramé. 3. I mean, there are people on LJ who like macramé, for heaven's sake. 4. Crafty collars made of beaten metal, neckpieces of wood and macramé, great big pendants and crosses are all back from the wilderness. 5. Three major mis-hits later, I wanted to give up golf and take up macramé. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Plausible, adjective. 🔉 /ˈplɔːzɪb(ə)l/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: (of an argument or statement) seeming reasonable or probable. ❗️ Examples: 1. A plausible explanation. 2. It seems plausible that one of two things may happen. 3. The chain comes to an end where neither your plausible responses nor mine change as the reasoning continues. 4. There is no plausible reason and explanation why the amount should be increased. 5. If they are representative, the only plausible answer is to consider their supposed ideology. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Sit on the fence, phrase. ❓ Definition: Avoid making a decision or choice. ❗️ Examples: 1. But he's going to make change and he's going to bring a lot of confidence to a lot of people who are sitting on the fence with the same decision. 2. You should make a decision; you cannot sit on the fence. 3. If that brings to mind a lot of dithering and sitting on the fence, you couldn't be more wrong. 4. As someone who has deferred the choice thus far (rather than actively making a decision), I know I could be accused of sitting on the fence. 5. They want someone to make all their choices for them, so they just sit on the fence and wait to be told what to do. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Meunière, adjective. 🔉 /ˌməːˈnjɛː/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (usually postpositive): (especially of fish) cooked or served in lightly browned butter with lemon juice and parsley. ❗️ Examples: 1. Sole meunière. 2. In fact, the few times the kitchen stumbles are with dishes like Dover-sole meunière or salmon pavé, which are reminiscent of the old Le Cirque. 3. Brittany is known for its seafood; hence, Yann's menu has many seafood dishes such as scallops, trout with almonds, sole meunière, tiger prawns and the assiette pêcheur (fisherman's platter). 4. The menu, so classic as to boast sole meunière and beef Rossini, makes you wonder where the challenge is for a man of Rachou's gifts. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Carefree, adjective. 🔉 /ˈkɛːfriː/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Free from anxiety or responsibility. ❗️ Examples: 1. We were young and carefree. 2. The carefree days of the holidays. 3. I'd watched the small children splash around in the sea, so carefree and free from responsibility. 4. The summer is generally associated with being a bright, happy and carefree time of year. 5. It was really nice, sunny weather and these songs remind me of a carefree, happy time in my life. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

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📚 Stab someone in the back, phrase. ❓ Definition: Betray someone. ❗️ Examples: 1. It was very competitive, with everyone stabbing everyone else in the back. 2. There are some people whom I regarded as friends, but they stabbed me in the back; there are those that I injured by mistake, but they were actually good people in retrospect. 3. The district council has stabbed us in the back. 4. Given the opportunity, the powerful will exploit the weak, and the person you love might betray you, stabbing you in the back. 5. Amanda and Chris had been the only two people who hadn't stabbed her in the back and betrayed her trust. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Blurred, adjective. 🔉 /bləːd/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Unable to see or be seen clearly. ❗️ Examples: 1. Blurred vision. 2. The camera caught only two blurred images. 3. We certainly wouldn't be trying to emulate people with blurred vision. 4. The darkness was unworldly, he thought; objects blurred into each other, colors shifted to become unnatural. 5. Symptoms included nausea, vertigo, headaches and blurred vision. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Once and for all, phrase. ❓ Definition: Now and for the last time; finally. ❗️ Examples: 1. It is better to strengthen your determination and stop smoking once for all rather than slowing it down. 2. I'd appreciate any information which serves to conclude this dispute once and for all. 3. Several months earlier he had still been despairing over the work and no doubt wondering whether another seizure would leave him speechless once for all. 4. This is one issue that residents and pedestrians would like to see completed once and for all. 5. If there had ever been any doubters, they were silenced once and for all. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Carapace, noun. 🔉 /ˈkarəpeɪs/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: The hard upper shell of a tortoise, crustacean, or arachnid. ❗️ Examples: 1. The study found oil in the carapace of 29 sea turtles that returned to feed in the spill area. 2. The hard carapace or upper shell of some sea turtles acts as a protection from predators. 3. Some have distinctive markings on their heads and on their carapace, or upper shell. 4. These genera have well-ornamented carapaces that exhibit carapace width and length ratios that differ from the other genera within the family. 5. It exhibits the ventral side of the body but the carapace is removed and dorsally visible. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Underdog, noun. 🔉 /ˈʌndədɒɡ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A competitor thought to have little chance of winning a fight or contest. ❗️ Examples: 1. We go into this game as the underdogs. 2. In his lifetime, he became a symbol of courage to a deprived country, the underdog in all his fights and still coming out on top. 3. We are all on the same side, underdogs fighting against social and environmental oppression. 4. The underdogs in any fight usually prepare body and mind meticulously before stepping into the ring. 5. My vote was giving the underdog a chance; it was a sympathy vote. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 The shape of things to come, phrase. ❓ Definition: The way the future is likely to develop. ❗️ Examples: 1. Unlike Agee, then, who was drawn to elegy, Martínez is drawn to prophecy: he sees the provinces as the future, the towns of Cherán and Warren as the shape of things to come. 2. Albeit clever, imaginative, notably fertile, this squeaky-voiced, scurrying little ladies' man, the prophet of the shape of things to come, fell short, in every sense, of his predecessor's measure. 3. Every day, a creation takes place as new uses, new mistakes, new copy is generated, each creating a new meaning for the shape of things to come. 4. For those of you living off-campus already, enjoy a stroll down memory lane; for the residents, beware of the shape of things to come. 5. He predicted no end to the poetic image, for the central aim of poetry is to insinuate the shape of things to come, and that is a perpetual process. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Tisane, noun. 🔉 /tɪˈzan/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A herbal tea. ❗️ Examples: 1. Elderflowers have been made into teas or tisanes in Europe and by N. American Indians, largely for medicinal use and especially as an antidote against colds. 2. On crisp spring days I often make a tisane or a rose tea, take it into the garden and wrap myself in a big warm blanket. 3. There are espressos, cappuccinos, mochaccinos, lattés, teas, tisanes and a wide assortment of more exotically flavoured coffee-based potions that would definitely put a little motion in your ocean, if you know what I mean. 4. Upon tasting the little cake dipped in a tisane, our hero experiences the shock of being swept back to his childhood, ‘an exquisite pleasure… filling me with a precious essence’. 5. To finish up, there are lots of intriguing coffee concoctions and fresh tisanes that will make you want to linger longer. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Curry, noun. 🔉 /ˈkʌri/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A dish of meat, vegetables, etc., cooked in an Indian-style sauce of hot-tasting spices and typically served with rice. ❗️ Examples: 1. We went out for a curry. 2. A beef curry. 3. I've been eating a lot of curry. 4. The foods served in the Balti pan are freshly cooked aromatically spiced curries. 5. Lunch consists of rice served with vegetable and meat curries and sauces such as sambol, a spicy mixture of grated coconut and chili, peppers, pickles, and chutneys. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic