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Munro
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Mun·ro  (mn-r), Alice Born 1931.
Canadian writer noted for vivid novels and short stories of life in rural Ontario. Her collections of stories include Dance of the Happy Shades (1968) and Moons of Jupiter (1982).

Munro, Hector Hugh Pen name Saki  (säk) 1870-1916.
British writer known for his witty and sometimes bitter short stories, published in collections such as The Chronicles of Clovis (1911).

Munro [mʌnˈrəʊ]
n pl Munros
(Individual Sports & Recreations / Mountaineering) Mountaineering any separate mountain peak over 3000 feet high: originally used of Scotland only but now sometimes extended to other parts of the British Isles
[named after Hugh Thomas Munro (1856-1919), who published a list of these in 1891]

Munro2
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1. (Biographies / Munro, Alice (1931 M, Canadian, WRITING: short-story writer) Alice, original name Alice Laidlaw. born 1931, Canadian short-story writer; her books include Lives of Girls and Women (1971), The Moons of Jupiter (1982), and The Love of a Good Woman (1999)
2. (Biographies / Munro, H(ector) H(ugh) (1870-1916) M, Scottish, WRITING: short-story writer) H(ector) H(ugh), pen name Saki. 1870-1916, Scottish author, born in Burma (now Myanmar), noted for his collections of satirical short stories, such as Reginald (1904) and Beasts and Superbeasts (1914)
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Noun1.Munro - British writer of short stories (1870-1916)


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Munros were his passion and he had bagged almost all of them.
I did about a dozen Munros in my teens and am going to bag some more.
OF MUNROS OR MOUNTAINS OVER 3,000FT NAME FIRST TO LIST THE MOUNTAINS WAS SIR HUGH MUNRO CAPTION(S): RESCUE Stuart and Carole with chopper from HMS Gannet; DROP Scene of Carole's 200ft plunge on Cruach Ardrain, Perthshire; HAPPY Smiling Carole shortly before horror fall; HIGH HOPES Pair want to bag all 284 Munros
 
 
 
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