Caudine Forks

[ kaw-dahyn ]

/ ˈkɔ daɪn /

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plural noun

two mountain passes in S Italy, in the Apennines near Benevento.

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Words nearby Caudine Forks

caudal fin, caudate, caudex, caudillismo, caudillo, Caudine Forks, caudle, caudle cup, caught, caught dead, wouldn't be, caught flat-footed

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How to use Caudine Forks in a sentence

He recalled one fundraising dinner where he and a fellow AIDS activist were served on paper plates with paper forks.
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There was a blond girl he liked in Three Forks, where his uncle lived.
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You will instead: Begin gathering nearby plates, dishes, forks and leftovers.
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Mohamed went on to the U.S., working in labs in Grand Forks, N.D., and Atlanta.
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This was a throwback, for by then forks were nearly universal.
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To the strangers, also, were given the spoons and forks, but the want of them did not appear to incommode the Brazilians.
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The knives and forks had white and black horn handles, with notched blades, and broken prongs.
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Although the table-cloth and the napkins were of fine damask, the knives were of a common sort, and the forks of steel.
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The boots were hung in the forks of a clump of willows, where they could easily be found on their return.
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I asked him once why the Europeans eat with knives and forks, and spoons, instead of with their fingers, which God had given them.
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British Dictionary definitions for Caudine Forks

Caudine Forks

/ (ˈkɔːdaɪn) /

pl n

a narrow pass in the Apennines, in S Italy, between Capua and Benevento: scene of the defeat of the Romans by the Samnites (321 bc)

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