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n. - Port city in northwestern Belgium and industrial center.

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  • I git tired o 'sittin' around the hotel, doin 'nuthin' but readin 'the papers and trying to be what they call a gent of leisure.
  • Very good tongue-in-cheek approach ... and the gent is right, this is no laughing matter.
  • We brought along a man named Inoki Noboyu, a nice old gent from the Japanese embassy office in Boston.
  • For years I went hiking in Mt. Rainier NP, and they had a sign warning that a gent was attacking lone female hikers.
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