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Meanings of lee (lees) in English
United States filmmaker whose works explore the richness of black culture in America (born in 1957)
Usage of lees in English
1
All wine deposits lees in the cask in the course of time.
2
Ageing takes place in oak barrels on lees over a 12-month period.
3
There is no more wine in the cup, nothing but the lees.
4
Yet, since you liked the wine, you should now consume the lees.
5
When it had all been bitter, why hesitate to drink the lees?
6
We had inherited their disappointments and drunk the lees of their bitterness.
7
And dashed in his face a whole cup of hot coffee-lees;-
8
Some steep seed in soda and oil lees to get a larger produce.
9
But he has carried high the unstained banner of the lees.
10
This Parliament will last: it will go on to the lees.
11
The man was still drunk, but only with the lees of the debauch.
12
Friends prove faithless, once the cask is drained to the lees.
13
Methinks my body is but the lees of my better being.
14
The only cheese we know of that is ripened with lees of wine.
15
The Collectivists stepped quickly into the lees of the bomb-shaken houses.
16
On Mochuda's departure the ale barrel drained out to the lees.
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