sene
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of sene
First recorded in 1965–70; from Samoan, from English cent
Example Sentences
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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
Wyth many a sighe, she went her waye, To se howe she made herselff so gay, To walke, to se, and to be sene, And so out-faced the hathorne grene.
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various
By the same meanes Caius Cesar beinge but a yonge man, was so eloquent & wel sene in the mathematical sciences.
From The Education of Children by Sherry, Richard
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 Baldwin, James
Poetes haue sene blake soules vnder the erthe / poetes haue fayned and made many lyes of the pale kyngdome of Plato / and of the water of Stigie / and of dogges in hell.
From The Art or Crafte of Rhetoryke by Cox, Leonard, ca. 1495-
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