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Amontillado
has a plethora of syllables.
So is supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. Does it mean:
| an obscure term ostensibly referring to a lung disease caused by silica dust, sometimes cited as one of the longest words in the English language. |
| (used as a nonsense word by children to express approval or to represent the longest word in English.) |
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amontillado
a variety of sherry wine, 1825, from Sp., from a "from" (from L. ad) + Montilla, name of a town in the province of Cordova.
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