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ex lib.

American  

abbreviation

  1. ex libris.

ex lib. British  

abbreviation

  1. ex libris

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No Person, tho' but indifferently learn'd, needs any Proof that the Gauls wore their Hair long, especially when he calls to mind that of the Poet Claudian, ex lib. in Ruffin.

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