| auberge | (noun) a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers | Synonyms: hostel, hostelry, inn, lodge |
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| aubergine | (noun) egg-shaped vegetable having a shiny skin typically dark purple but occasionally white or yellow | Synonyms: eggplant, mad apple |
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| (noun) hairy upright herb native to southeastern Asia but widely cultivated for its large glossy edible fruit commonly used as a vegetable | Synonyms: brinjal, eggplant, eggplant bush, garden egg, mad apple, Solanum melongena |
| auburn | (adjective) (of hair) colored a moderate reddish-brown | - |
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| bauble | (noun) cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing | Synonyms: bangle, fallal, gaud, gewgaw, novelty, trinket |
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| (noun) a mock scepter carried by a court jester | - |
| bedaub | (verb) spread or daub (a surface) | Synonyms: besmear |
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| bedaubed | (adjective) ornamented in a vulgar or showy fashion | - |
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| carnauba | (noun) Brazilian fan palm having an edible root; source of a useful leaf fiber and a brittle yellowish wax | Synonyms: carnauba palm, Copernicia cerifera, Copernicia prunifera, wax palm |
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| (noun) hard yellowish to brownish wax from leaves of the carnauba palm used especially in floor waxes and polishes | Synonyms: carnauba wax |
| daub | (noun) an unskillful painting | - |
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| (noun) a blemish made by dirt | Synonyms: blot, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, spot |
| (noun) material used to daub walls | - |
| (verb) cover (a surface) by smearing (a substance) over it | Synonyms: smear |
| (verb) coat with plaster | Synonyms: plaster |
| (verb) apply to a surface | - |
| dauber | (noun) an unskilled painter | - |
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| daubing | (noun) the application of plaster | Synonyms: plastering |
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| faubourg | (noun) a New Orleans district lying outside the original city limits; used in combination with the names of various quarters of the city | - |
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| hauberk | (noun) a long (usually sleeveless) tunic of chain mail formerly worn as defensive armor | Synonyms: byrnie |
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| imbauba | (noun) tropical American tree with large peltate leaves and hollow stems | Synonyms: Cecropia peltata, snake wood, trumpet-wood, trumpet tree, trumpetwood |
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| pickelhaube | (noun) a spiked helmet worn by German soldiers | - |
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