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celestine

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cel·es·tine  (sl-stn, -stn, s-lstn, -tn)
n.
See celestite.
[German Zölestin, from Latin caelestis, celestial; see celestial.]
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Xavier Rabourdin fell desperately in love with Mademoiselle Celestine Leprince, then seventeen years of age, who had all the matrimonial claims of a dowry of two hundred thousand francs.
Bureaucracy by de Balzac, Honore View in context
Old Celestine, who works occasionally for me, says she will come stay with me and do my work.
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of Cicero to the mortuology of the Celestine Fathers, and a barbarian neither in scholastics, nor in politics, nor in rhythmics, that sophism of sophisms.
Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo, Victor View in context
 
 
 
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