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span-new
[ span-noo, -nyoo ]
span-new
adjective
- archaic.absolutely new
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Origin of span-new1
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Origin of span-new1
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Example Sentences
He seems to think he is mooting to me a spick and span new idea—that he has invented something.
He has got a span new suit of blue uniform, all covered with gold buttons, an gold lace an gold shoulder-straps.
But there were ower mony great folks dipped in the same doings, to mak a spick and span new warld.
But till't their lordships went wi' as muckle teeth and gude-will, as if the matter had been a' speck and span new.
She lived for him, and his services, and the bran span new church he had built for himself in the square at the back.
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