piet
Americannoun
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Scot. a magpie.
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Scot. and North England. a talkative person; one who chatters.
Etymology
Origin of piet
1175–1225; pie 2 + -et; replacing Middle English piot < Old French, equivalent to pie pie 2 + -ot diminutive suffix
Example Sentences
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Nearby, lovely reconstructions in watercolor and gouache of several wall paintings were made onsite around 1960 by the well-known British archaeological illustrator, Piet de Jong.
From Los Angeles Times
In their bathroom, Davis hung paintings that her children had made in the style of artists Piet Mondrian and Yayoi Kusama.
From Los Angeles Times
In their bathroom, Davis hung paintings her children had made in the style of the artists Piet Mondrian and Yayoi Kusama.
From Los Angeles Times
They were more like pathetic background extras, or bizarro-world inversions of the starving children from charity ads of bygone years: You can save Farmer Piet from white genocide, or you can turn the page.
From Salon
But Dr Piet Croucamp, an associate professor in political studies at South Africa's North West University, disagreed, echoing the view that those taking up this offer were not refugees as "South Africa does not persecute people".
From BBC
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