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noun
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James, 1730–94, and his brother Robert, 1728–92, English architects and furniture designers.
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a male given name.
adjective
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of or pertaining to the style of architecture, decoration, or furnishings associated with Robert and James Adam, characterized by free adaptation of ancient Roman forms and interiors treated with delicate ornament generally painted in light, vivid colors.
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The old Adam
is always a great word to know.
So is gobo. Does it mean:
| 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. |
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
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not know from Adam, to be unacquainted with: He says hello to us every morning, but we don't know him from Adam.
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the old Adam, the natural tendency toward sin: He attributed his wild outburst to the old Adam in him.
Origin:
< Hebrew ādhām literally, man
< Hebrew ādhām literally, man
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