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American
[moo-lan]
/ muˈlɛ̃ /
noun
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a nearly vertical shaft or cavity worn in a glacier by surface water falling through a crack in the ice.
Moulin
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British
/ mulɛ̃ /
noun
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Jean (ʒɑ̃). 1899–1943, French lawyer and Resistance hero; Chairman of the National Council of the Resistance (1943): tortured to death by the Nazis
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moulin
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British
/ ˈmuːlɪn /
noun
-
a vertical shaft in a glacier, maintained by a constant descending stream of water and debris
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2012 Digital Edition
© William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986
© HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005,
2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Etymology
1855–60; < French < Late Latin molīnum mill 1
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Time of Moulting Dark drama about a dysfunctional family in 1970s Germany.
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