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Androcles

[an-druh-kleez]

noun Roman Legend.

a slave who was spared in the arena by a lion from whose foot he had long before extracted a thorn.

Also, An·dro·clus

[an-druh-kluhs] .

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an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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Androcles or Androclus (ˈændrəˌkliːz, ˈændrəkləs)

—n
	(in Roman legend) a slave whose life was spared in the arena by a lion from whose paw he had once extracted a thorn

Androclus or Androclus

—n

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