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Any of the several large, dark plains on the moon and Mars.

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Used as a noun, listen here, it means: Any of the several large, dark plains on the moon and Mars. Used as a noun, listen here, it means: Female horse or other equine animal.

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  • The grey mare is the better horse.
  • You're as different from other women as that kind of a mare is from scrub work-horse mares.
  • See to it that my mare is saddled in ten minutes and Blue Devil harnessed to your master's curricle!
  • With half the county courtin 'her it ain't to be expected that she'd go as sober as a grey mare, is it?
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  • The "mayor" (chief official of a city) caused quite a furor when she rode a "mare" (female horse or donkey) in the rodeo.
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