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noun

another name for ribbonwood

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Words nearby thousand-jacket

thousandfold, Thousand Guineas, Thousand Island, Thousand Island dressing, Thousand Islands, thousand-jacket, Thousand Oaks, thousandth, Thr, Thrace, Thracian

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How to use thousand-jacket in a sentence

Otis says he was wearing a tan jacket similar to one described by witnesses.
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Well over a thousand holes in, I average less than four strokes per hole.
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It cost several thousand dollars and a high-powered former district attorney to get the charges dropped.
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Neither could her three-week, multi-thousand dollar stay, which was supposed to be a recovery period.
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One person who dialed in has “a pretty big Twitter following,” Goff said, “several thousand.”
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It contains above eighty thousand houses, and about six hundred thousand inhabitants.
Gulliver's Travels|Jonathan Swift
The garrison of the town and fortress was nearly three thousand strong.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
There were two battalions, together about a thousand men; and they brought a field-piece with them.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
And it was no light task, then, for six hundred men to keep the peace on a thousand miles of frontier.
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Ten thousand of the best troops in Mexico entered Texas and were shortly to be followed by ten thousand more.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various