Haifa
Americannoun
noun
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Expect much noise for hometown favourites such as Eats Everything, Waifs & Strays and Baby Malc.
From The Guardian • May 25, 2013
Label mainstays Waifs & Strays, Behling & Simpson and Bruh Jackman all feature, alongside a live set from Outboxx.
From The Guardian • May 4, 2013
The citizens of London sent fifty million pounds, to keep the menagerie up, and the ladies of Britain constructed a pair of black velvet carpet slippers with the Waifs initials embroidered in gold.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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In Strathpeffer district the tale is well known, and it is referred to in "Waifs and Strays of Celtic Tradition."
From Elves and Heroes by Mackenzie, Donald Alexander
Pray excuse me," said Rupert, in a voice which he contrived to make somehow or other at once affable and underbred, "but we thought perhaps that you might do something for the Waifs and Strays.
From The Club of Queer Trades by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
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