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lady-in-waiting
  • n  a lady appointed to attend to a queen or princess
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lacuna
  • n  a blank gap or missing part
  • n  an ornamental sunken panel in a ceiling or dome
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lad
  • n  a boy or man
  • n  a male child (a familiar term of address to a boy)
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lad's love
  • n  aromatic herb of temperate Eurasia and North Africa having a bitter taste used in making the liqueur absinthe
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ladanum
  • n  a soft blackish-brown resinous exudate from various rockroses used in perfumes especially as a fixative
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ladder
  • n  steps consisting of two parallel members connected by rungs; for climbing up or down
  • n  ascending stages by which somebody or something can progress
    he climbed the career ladder
  • n  a row of unravelled stitches
  • v  come unraveled or undone as if by snagging
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ladder-back
  • n  a chair with a ladder-back
  • n  the backrest of a chair that consists of two uprights with connecting slats
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ladies'-eardrop
  • n  erect or climbing shrub of Brazil with deep pink to red flowers
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ladies'-eardrops
  • n  erect or climbing shrub of Brazil with deep pink to red flowers
  • n  erect or climbing shrub of Brazil with deep pink to red flowers
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ladies' room
  • n  a woman's restroom in a public (or semipublic) building
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ladies' slipper
  • n  any of several chiefly American wildflowers having an inflated pouchlike lip; difficult or impossible to cultivate in the garden
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ladies' tobacco
  • n  North American perennial propagated by means of runners
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