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Alvar

[ ahl-vahr ]

/ ˈɑl vɑr /

noun (sometimes lowercase) Hinduism. (in southern India)

a holy person of the Vaishnava sect.

Origin of Alvar

< Tamil āl̤vār, derivative of ār̤- sink, be absorbed (as in contemplation)

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Your mother didn't sell the Alvar Street house until January of 1944.
Warren Commission (11 of 26): Hearings Vol. XI (of 15)|The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
The Cid came with his kinsmen, Alvar Faez, and twelve hundred cavaliers.
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Alvar was born in Xeres de la Frontera, Spain, toward the last of the fifteenth century.
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"We been going away from the right one all the time," said Alvar.
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In any event it was a house different from or other than the 2109 Alvar?
Warren Commission (11 of 26): Hearings Vol. XI (of 15)|The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy

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