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licet

American  
[lee-ket, lahy-set] / ˈli kɛt, ˈlaɪ sɛt /
Latin.
  1. it is allowed.


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"I wanted to be modern while still maintaining my culture," Peruvian designer Licet Alvarez told Reuters, wearing face paint and a beaded Kitsarenchy, a traditional costume of the Anaro people of Peru's central highlands.

From Reuters

Here Creon offers one of the greatest and simplest rebukes to power in all literature: “Ubi non licet tacere, quid cuiquam licet?”

From The Wall Street Journal

Handcrafted smoked bowls from Videre Licet are made from solid teak that then undergo a special dyeing process.

From Los Angeles Times

Arma nondum licet deponere, meae sorores, nee proeliurn tarn Ion-gum tamque difficile nobis est relin- quendum.

From Time

On a wooded hill a just outside the city of Guantánamo, at a newly built tourist overlook with a 10-foot high viewing platform and a restaurant, Néver Pérez, 48, and his wife, Licet Palomino, 45, gazed over Guantánamo Bay toward the base in the distance.

From New York Times