With his lace and embroideries, and his crown of blue ribbon and whalebone, he looked like the king of babies.
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Whalebone
Synonyms for "whalebone" (12 found)
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Closest matches (3)
Noun(1 words)
Strong matches (3)
Related words (6)
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11 translations across 11 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- балена noun (horny material from fringed plates of upper jaw of baleen whale)
Dutch
1 entries- balein noun (horny material from fringed plates of upper jaw of baleen whale)
Esperanto
1 entries- balenosto noun (horny material from fringed plates of upper jaw of baleen whale)
French
1 entries- fanon noun (horny material from fringed plates of upper jaw of baleen whale)
Galician
1 entries- balea noun (horny material from fringed plates of upper jaw of baleen whale)
German
1 entries- Fischbein noun (horny material from fringed plates of upper jaw of baleen whale)
Ido
1 entries- barto noun (horny material from fringed plates of upper jaw of baleen whale)
Italian
1 entries- fanone noun (horny material from fringed plates of upper jaw of baleen whale)
Polish
1 entries- fiszbin noun (horny material from fringed plates of upper jaw of baleen whale)
Russian
1 entries- кито́вый ус noun (horny material from fringed plates of upper jaw of baleen whale)
Spanish
1 entries- ballena noun (horny material from fringed plates of upper jaw of baleen whale)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
This bodice was made with linen and synthetic whalebone.
Source: tatoeba (12470196)
“You have probably never seen anything like this before, Mr. Toler. It is baleen, or if you prefer it, whalebone, taken from the mouth of the bowhead whale. It is used by the whale to filter its food.”
Source: wiktionary
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