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n. - Perennial having hollow cylindrical leaves used for seasoning.

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  • Usually shorter grains will cive you a creamier pudding.
  • His De cive contains a sharp criticism of Aristotle's idea of man as a social creature.
  • Analogous ideas were expressed by Matteo Palmieri in his work Della vita civile (ca. 1440) and Bartolommeo de 'Sacchi in De optimo cive.
  • Is it that I am so weak as to believe, like a child, that I come here in that dress to rec – cive that boy only to decide a little bet, a wager?
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