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cul-de-lampe

cul-de-lampe noun: an ornamental design used to fill up blank spaces in a book.

Noun

cul-de-lampe

  1. An ornamental design used to fill up blank spaces in a book.

Origin of cul-de-lampe

From French.

Questions about cul-de-lampe

What does cul-de-lampe mean?
Cul-de-lampe means an ornamental design used to fill up blank spaces in a book.
What part of speech is cul-de-lampe?
Cul-de-lampe is a noun.

Words near cul-de-lampe in the dictionary

  1. cukservatives
  2. cukup
  3. cul de sac
  4. cul de sacs
  5. cul-de-four
  6. cul-de-lampe
  7. cul-de-sac
  8. cul-de-sacs
  9. cul8r
  10. Culajao
  11. Culang

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