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pedes

/ ˈpɛdiːz /

noun

  1. the plural of pes

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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They had their own language — losers were "cucks," loyal foot soldiers "pedes," and Hillary Clinton was Hillary "Klanton" — and they operated with their own sets of elaborate but twisted rules and hierarchies.

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Originally planning to be a surgeon or obstetrician-gynecologist, she chose pediatrics after her spouse pointed out that she never wanted to come home from the hospital when she was on rotation in the “pedes” unit.

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As the court was just about to open it fell to my lot to take the road back to Rostock per pedes.

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The most absurd thing was, that not having any friends in Baden, he was driven to return "per pedes" to his university, a distance of more than one hundred miles.

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The measure of quantity is put after adjectives, in the accusative, the ablative, and the genitive case, as Anguis centum pedes longus: A snake a hundred feet long.

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