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durain

[ door-eyn, dyoor- ]

noun

Mineralogy.
  1. the coal forming the dull layers in banded bituminous coal.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of durain1

1915–20; < Latin »åÅ«°ù ( us ) hard + -ain, from fusain, by analysis as a suffix
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Senator Jérôme Durain, a member of the Socialist Party and one of two authors of a Senate Committee report on drug trafficking in France that was completed this week, was not shocked by the killing.

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Laurent Durain, a fishmonger at the Marché d’Aligre, one of Paris’s oldest and most vibrant food markets, was worried that the salmon he had ordered from Scotland for the Christmas rush wouldn’t make it.

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Mr. Durain had ordered 1,200 oysters, and hired six additional helpers to shell them during the holidays.

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