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Greenlander

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Greenlander [ˈgriːnləndə]
n
(Placename) a native or inhabitant of Greenland
Translations
Greenlander [ˈgriːnləndəʳ] N → groenlandés/esa m/f
Greenlander [ˈgriːnləndər] n → Groenlandais(e) m/f
green light n
(= traffic light) → feu m vert
(= go-ahead) to give sb/sth the green light → donner le feu vert à qn/qch
to be given the green light to do sth, to get the green light to do sth → recevoir le feu vert pour faire qch
Greenlander
n → Grönländer(in) m(f)
Greenlander [ˈgriːnləndəʳ] n → groenlandese m/f
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"She's a public lunger or she wouldn't have been singing the Benedicite; and she's a Greenlander or she wouldn't have snow-blinds over her colloids," said George at last.
Actions and Reactions by Kipling, Rudyard View in context
Then, again, if you fix your eye upon this strange, crested, comb-like incrustation on the top of the mass --this green, barnacled thing, which the Greenlanders call the crown, and the Southern fishers the bonnet of the Right Whale; fixing your eyes solely on this, you would take the head for the trunk of some huge oak, with a bird's nest in its crotch.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
 
 
 
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