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Bourg
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| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| 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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| —n | |
| a variant of ayin | |
| Ain (French ɛ̃) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a department in E central France, in Rhône-Alpes region. Capital: Bourg. Pop: 539 006 (2003 est). Area: 5785 sq km (2256 sq miles) |
| 2. | a river in E France, rising in the Jura Mountains and flowing south to the Rhône. Length: 190 km (118 miles) |
| bourg (bʊəɡ, French bur) | |
| —n | |
| a French market town, esp one beside a castle | |
| [C15: French, from Old French borc, from Late Latin burgus castle, of Germanic origin; see | |
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Roman remains have been discovered at bourg, but little is known of its early history.
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