sene
Americannoun
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sene
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Etymology
Origin of sene
First recorded in 1965–70; from Samoan, from English cent
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A locker in the ship's writing room mysteriously "blew out as if it were fed by gasoline or kero sene."
From Time Magazine Archive
Than ye shulde haue sene euery noble man doyng their seruyce to them apoynted in ye best maner yt hath ben sene in any suche serimony.
From The Maner of the Tryumphe of Caleys and Bulleyn and The Noble Tryumphant Coronacyon of Quene Anne, Wyfe unto the Most Noble Kynge Henry VIII by Wynkyn de Worde
He had also to be "sufficientlie sene in playnsonge and gramer and to helpe dyvyne service in the church."
From A History of Giggleswick School From its Foundation, 1499 to 1912 by Edward Allen Bell
Hire overlippë wypede sche so clene, That in hire cuppë was no ferthing sene Of grecë, whan sche dronken hadde hire draughte.
From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by James Baldwin
To ryse the dere out of theyr denne; Suche sightes as hath ofte bene sene, As by thre yemen of the north countrey, By them it is as I meane.
From Ballads of Robin Hood and other Outlaws Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Fourth Series by Frank Sidgwick
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