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dentes

American  
[den-teez] / ˈdɛn tiz /

noun

  1. plural of dens.


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“Nunca imaginei uma situação assim”, disse Íris, enquanto o aparelho dos seus dentes brilhava e ela tentava acalmar Alícia com um de seus únicos métodos bem-sucedidos: tocar repetidamente um desenho animado musical no seu celular.

From New York Times • Mar. 14, 2017

Proferendumque est quicquid est adspiratum eodum halitu quo f, sed minime admoto ad superiores dentes inferiore labello, ore aut aperto ha, he hi, ho, hu, et concusso pectore.

From The Arawack Language of Guiana in its Linguistic and Ethnological Relations by Brinton, Daniel Garrison

Quod petiere, premunt arcte, faciuntque dolorem           Corporis, et dentes inlidunt saepe labellis .

From The Essays of Montaigne — Volume 11 by Cotton, Charles

Et mihi adhuc superstes est tota ilia editio prima, quam quasi crepitaculum per quod dentes caninos dentibam retineo.

From Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole by Lowell, James Russell

Ecce, vagi venit unda cibi; venit indole sacra Fortis, et in dentes fertilis innumeros.68 Quando erat invictae tam sancta licentia coenae?

From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard

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