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-aire
- a suffix that forms nouns denoting a person characterized by or occupied with that named by the stem, occurring in loanwords from French:
concessionaire; doctrinaire; legionnaire; millionaire.
Aire
/ ɛə /
noun
- a river in N England rising in the Pennines and flowing southeast to the Ouse. Length: 112 km (70 miles)
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Like the corresponding French nouns in -eur, these nouns in -aire, as well as those in -èire, are also used as adjectives.
Two miles further down, on the west side, the Ouse receives another important feeder in the Aire.
The houses look on to a strip of uneven green, cut in two, lengthways, by the Aire.
At the base of the perpendicular face of the cliff the Aire flows from a very slightly arched recess in the rock.
Yaas—day follar de wagon, dey aire leave dar pony-track all roun you.
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