dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/oxb_MW.json
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{
"oxblood":{
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"definitions":{
": a moderate reddish brown":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Kardashian paired the strappy dress with more accessories from the Italian luxury house, including a shoulder-length veil, fingerless ruched sheer opera gloves, and oxblood pumps. \u2014 Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR , 16 May 2022",
"The doll features a deep oxblood red tulle gown, heeled boots, a sparkling silver metallic bodysuit and silver earrings. \u2014 Brett Molina, USA TODAY , 25 May 2022",
"It\u2019s Designer Eye Palette into a theatrical look replete with thin, Clara Bow brows and two rows of lashes; her own Vaudeville tribute featured ombre shades of red eye-shadow and a centralized stamp of oxblood lipstick. \u2014 Celia Ellenberg, Vogue , 3 May 2022",
"Color schemes, many nature-inspired, are moving to the warm end of the spectrum, too \u2014 russet and oxblood , hunter greens and moss tones, navy hues, earthy oranges and curry yellows, along with grays with green undertones. \u2014 Washington Post , 6 Apr. 2022",
"Their dark, oxblood eyeliner also has an ombr\u00e9 feel, with the wing subtly blurred around the edges. \u2014 Marci Robin, Allure , 3 Apr. 2022",
"Back in the castle, a one-way system leads back down to the knights' room, notable for its Gothic niches and a ceiling painted with oxblood . \u2014 John Malathronas, CNN , 17 Jan. 2022",
"Ismail arrives, a vision in a Canadian tuxedo, oxblood Tory Burch purse, hijab, and sparkly Michael Kors sneakers. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 13 Jan. 2022",
"Howard paired the rustic table with a modern take on traditional chairs in an oxblood red finish by O&G Studio. \u2014 Kelly Allen, House Beautiful , 27 Sep. 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1705, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8\u00e4ks-\u02ccbl\u0259d"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-190115",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"oxbow lake":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a crescent-shaped often ephemeral lake formed in the abandoned channel of a meander by the silting up of its ends after the stream has cut through the land within the meander at a narrow point":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-070859"
},
"oxbow stirrup":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a large wooden stirrup resembling an oxbow in shape":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-090434"
},
"oxbow":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a U-shaped frame forming a collar about an ox's neck and holding the yoke in place":[],
": something (such as a bend in a river) resembling an oxbow":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8\u00e4ks-\u02ccb\u014d"
],
"synonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The river, including Lake Ferguson, which had formed between the Mississippi and the rebuilt town of Greenville when the Corps cut off an oxbow from the main channel in the 1930s. \u2014 W. Hodding Carter, Outside Online , 29 June 2011",
"Just past the Butler campus, nestled in a triangular piece of land between an oxbow of the White River and the central canal, the town at first glance appears to be mostly trees. \u2014 London Gibson, The Indianapolis Star , 9 Nov. 2020",
"An oxbow is a lake that forms when a section of a river is cut off, leaving a separate body of water. \u2014 Deborah Martin, ExpressNews.com , 26 June 2020",
"Near an oxbow in the creek beneath us, a herd of buffalo graze. \u2014 National Geographic , 16 Jan. 2020",
"Looping tracts of bare red clay traced the oxbows of the Madre de Dios, sucked dry to wash gold. \u2014 Nell Zink, Harper's magazine , 28 Oct. 2019",
"Mitchell said alligators have been known to lurk in a nearby oxbow . \u2014 Joe Holley, Houston Chronicle , 29 June 2018",
"That parenthesis of water alongside the main channel is an oxbow . \u2014 Adam Rogers, WIRED , 4 Apr. 2018",
"For an even closer encounter, stay in Angama Mara\u2019s high-luxe equivalent on the Tanzanian side, the Singita Mara River Tented Camp, which is built above an oxbow . \u2014 Sophy Roberts, Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler , 25 Apr. 2018"
],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-052315"
},
"oxbrake":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a frame in which oxen are shod":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-070928"
},
"oxbridge":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": of, relating to, or characteristic of Oxford and Cambridge Universities \u2014 compare plateglass , redbrick sense 2":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8\u00e4ks-\u02ccbrij"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Ox ford + Cam bridge":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1955, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-195102"
},
"Oxbridge":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": of, relating to, or characteristic of Oxford and Cambridge Universities \u2014 compare plateglass , redbrick sense 2":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8\u00e4ks-\u02ccbrij"
],
"synonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Ox ford + Cam bridge":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1955, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-114958"
},
"oxberry":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": the fruit of the black bryony":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8\u00e4ks-\u2014 see berry"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220713-031614"
},
"oxbird":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": dunlin":[],
": the sanderling or other sandpiper":[],
": an African weaverbird ( Bubalornis albirostris )":[],
": oxpecker":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220713-040128"
},
"oxbiter":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": cowbird":[],
": oxpecker":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220713-040349"
}
}