vo.
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very old: used to imply that a brandy or whisky is old; now often extended to port and other dessert wines
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Royal Victorian Order
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Crown 8 vo. 1s. boards; 1s. 6d. cloth.
From France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 by William Henry Hurlbert
With further Notes and an Introduction by Donald Ferguson, London: Printed for the Hakluyt Society, MDCCCCII, 8 vo. pp. cvii-292.
From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Henry Yule
Professor Burnham, building on the scholarship of V.O.
From New York Times ● Oct. 11, 2022
In his seminal 1949 book, “Southern Politics in State and Nation,” the scholar V.O.
From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2019
Cochran argued that the same sorts of maladies which afflicted the South circa 1950, diagnosed in V.O.
From Salon ● Dec. 2, 2018
Wilder's ascension inevitably prompted journalists to dust off their favorite Virginia cliches ranging from "Capital of the Confederacy" to political scientist V.O.
From Time Magazine Archive
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First and second quality sold in barrels; one-star, two-star, three-star and V.O. sold in bottles.
From Notes on Agriculture in Cyprus and Its Products by William Bevan
Points docked for no Joe Pesci VO though.
From Golf Digest ● Jan. 31, 2018
Thanks to the added VO, the audience is actually missing some world-building and immersion because our narrator is talking about things we’ve already taken in.
From The Verge ● Oct. 3, 2017
But on the final day of searching at the lower site, Stoner unearthed a piece of metal with a label attached to some wires that read "CKPT VO RCRD" an abbreviation of Cockpit Voice Recorder.
From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2017
Over-reliance on VO can be a crutch, as it was on the fall’s somewhat charming A to Z and the awful Manhattan Love Story.
From Slate ● Dec. 22, 2014
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