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schrank

[shrangk]

noun

  1. (in Pennsylvania Dutch furniture) a two-door clothes cabinet one side of which has drawers and shelves and the other side an open space for hanging clothes.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of schrank1

From Pennsylvania Dutch; compare German Schrank “cupboard”
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Example Sentences

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On Friday, the day after the raid, the ICE agent in charge of the operation, Steven Schrank said all 475 detainees were "illegally present in the United States".

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On that date, Theodore Roosevelt, another former president campaigning for a return to the White House, was shot by a mentally ill bar owner from New York City named John Schrank.

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According to the Washington Post, “Schrank died in a mental institution in 1943.”

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In which city did Theodore Roosevelt survive being shot by a deranged saloonkeeper named John Flammang Schrank in 1912?

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"The government is fiddling with a system that's fundamentally broken," Nina Schrank from Greenpeace told BBC News.

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