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byword in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Byword may
refer to:
Byword (horse), a
thoroughbred racehorse and sire from the
United Kingdom Byword (saying)...
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Byword (foaled 13
February 2006) is a British-bred, French-trained
Thoroughbred racehorse and sire.
Unraced as a two-year-old, he
showed promising form...
- A
proverb (from Latin: proverbium) is a simple,
traditional saying that
expresses a
perceived truth based on
common sense or experience.
Proverbs are often...
- "Interview with
Grady Nutt
Archived 2010-09-07 at the
Wayback Machine.
Bywords (Episode 196).
Kentucky Educational Television. 1981 (original air-date...
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parliamentary seat in the 1964
general election. The town had
become a
byword for
racial division after the
successful candidate,
Peter Griffiths, was...
- dear to me,
especially as he will be
called by that dear name
which is a
byword for all that is
great and good." Consequently, he was
baptised "Albert Frederick...
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would be
beneath contempt if it weren't also true, in the
sense that all
bywords for
bigots are
intended to be defamatory."
Transgender rights activist...
- mistresses. As a result, his
Italianized Valencian surname, Borgia,
became a
byword for
libertinism and nepotism,
which are
traditionally considered as characterizing...
- A dodo, the bird that
became a
byword in the
English language for the
extinction of a species...
- exoticism,
while the
terms "Byzantine" and "Byzantinism" have been used as
bywords for decadence,
complex bureaucracy, and repression. Both
Eastern and Western...