colonial goose

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noun

NZ an old-fashioned name for stuffed roast mutton

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Words nearby colonial goose

colonelcy, colonia, colonial, colonial animal, colonial experience, colonial goose, Colonial Heights, colonialism, coloniality, colonialization, colonialize

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How to use colonial goose in a sentence

During the colonial period the Punjabi Muslims formed the prized martial class for the British Raj.
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There were men dressed in colonial garb complete with knee-breeches and powdered wigs.
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We had a little goose that was laying golden eggs, and they told us to snip its head off.
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Madison knew directly how colonial-era Anglicans had persecuted Baptists.
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I wandered around aimlessly for a while, then gave the goose to an acquiescent hippy on a barge.
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As Spain, however, has fallen from the high place she once held, her colonial system has also gone down.
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To hear the creature talk about it makes my mouth as a brick kiln and my flesh as that of a goose.
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The Kutchin make pretty pipe-stems out of goose-quills wound about with porcupine-quills.
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The universal desire was for mamma to see him, and when the time came, she owned that papa's swan had not turned out a goose.
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Colonial charters were, however, "undoubtedly no more than those of all corporations, which empower them to make bye-laws."
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