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Strange (1 syl.)

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Latin, extra (without); whence extraʹneus (one without); old French, estrange; Italian, strano, etc. Stranger, therefore, is extraʹneus, one without.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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