curet
Americannoun
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Here she uses that wit, gently but insistently, like a hygienist with a curet, to scrape away the social surface of her marriage.
From New York Times • Feb. 21, 2018
Rev. auctorem ut nova aliqua editione librum emendandum curet atque interim in scholasticis suis lectionibus ab iis sententiis abstinere velit.
From The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, April 1865 by Various
By-and-by, the paroxysms are less frequent, in proportion as the curet approaches.
From The Vicomte de Bragelonne Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" by Dumas père, Alexandre
Some hinted at Natura, Mit her olt vis sanatrix, Boot eash doktor shvore he curet him, Und de rest were taugenix.
From The Breitmann Ballads by Leland, Charles Godfrey
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