hard sign
Americannoun
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the Cyrillic letter Ъ, ъ as used in Russian to indicate that the preceding consonant is not palatalized: not in official use since 1918.
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the same symbol used for the back vowel of Old Church Slavonic from which this Russian usage and phenomenon are historically derived.
Example Sentences
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The movie watches, repetitively, as they train hard, sign autographs, spend time with family and nurse injuries.
From New York Times
Just by liquidating the hard sign at the end of words, printers saved 70 pages on each copy of Tolstoy's War and Peace.
From Time Magazine Archive
This is a very hard sign to overcome.
From Project Gutenberg
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