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cul-de-sac |
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cul-de-sac 1. a road with one end blocked off; dead end 2. Anatomy any tube-shaped bodily cavity or pouch closed at one end, such as the caecum cul-de-sac [′kəl·də‚sak] (anatomy) Blind pouch or diverticulum. (civil engineering) A dead-end street with a circular area for turning around. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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In that cul-de-sac I was caught like a bear in a pen. It seems as innocent of a destination as a boy on an errand; but, after taking at least six times as long as any other road in the kingdom for its amount of work, you usually find it dip down of a sudden into some lovely natural cul-de-sac, a meadow-bottom surrounded by trees, with a stream spreading itself in fantastic silver shallows through its midst, and a cottage half hidden at the end. THAT Pierre Bon-Bon was a restaurateur of uncommon qualifications, no man who, during the reign of ---, frequented the little Câfé in the cul-de-sac Le Febvre at Rouen, will, I imagine, feel himself at liberty to dispute. |
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