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A.V.C.

American  
Or AVC

abbreviation

  1. American Veterans' Committee.

  2. automatic volume control.


AVC British  

abbreviation

  1. additional voluntary contribution: one of a series of supplementary payments made to a pension fund

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"A.V.C.," the young man said slowly, deciphering the monogram, which, in exquisitely-chased gold, surmounted the pendant itself.

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"A.V.C. would have been some ancestor of yours, no doubt?" he asked jocularly, and with another wink at his companion.

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It does look nice," the girl whispered complacently, as she clasped the chain, and saw the exquisite jewel resting against the whiteness of her neck, "and I wonder what those twisted letters A.V.C. mean?

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But how comes it that your mother possessed this pendant with the letters A.V.C.?

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The initials of Ennis' corps, A.V.C., are an acronym of the opening lines of the Aeneid�Arma virumque cano.

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