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heu
n.
134 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) Color; also, brightness or freshness of color;
of on heu
, in solid color(s;
clothen in heu
, to take (a lady's) colors, become her servant; (b) paint, dye, pigment;
fig.
a rhetorical color; (c)
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