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Débris

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Noun
  1. 1
    Dated spelling of debris. countable, uncountable

    "The gorge widens out slightly after leaving Pa-tung, giving room for piles of gigantic débris from the neighbouring mountains to obstruct the river and create numerous small rapids, which we surmount in the usual painful manner. The country is wild and desolate-looking in the extreme, and well explains the poverty of the Pa-tung district."

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Unadapted borrowing from French débris.

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