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prē̆sse
n.
210 quotations in 10 senses
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(a) A crowd, throng, company, an assembly; also, the assembling or gathering of a crowd; also, a group of things; (b)
amid (among(es, in, in middes) presse
, among or in a crowd;
into presse
, in among…
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