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Meanings of mot in English

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мот
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mot
Catalan
mot
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Ancient Canaanite god of death and the Underworld.

        Related terms
        мот
        Spanish
        dicho

        A clever remark.

              dicho

              A compulsory annual test of older motor vehicles for safety and exhaust fumes.

                    Usage of mot in English
                    1
                    He must have seen that brilliant bon mot in the Chicago Inter-Ocean.
                    The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast — Volume 10
                    2
                    Play along with the bon mot-excuse me, joke-rightup to the end.
                    The devil's heart
                    3
                    You might find the perfect X-rated bon mot at Custom Erotica Source.
                    Wired
                    4
                    And pleased at this mot, the poet bowed coldly, and went on.
                    Jack / 1877
                    5
                    She asked his consent, deeming it mot right to act without it.
                    Grandmother Elsie
                    6
                    The mot d'ordre is that you are not to speak to me.
                    Margot Asquith, an Autobiography - Two Volumes in One
                    7
                    Thus, mot-2 is considered a potential therapeutic target in several cancer types.
                    Pubmed
                    8
                    This did not surprise me so much as a bon mot of his.
                    The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1
                    9
                    Surely he hath much cause of fear, but mot of despair.
                    The World's Great Sermons, Volume 02: Hooker to South
                    10
                    Another man-notJakob-confirmedthe cleverness of this bon mot with a shrill titter.
                    The Fireman
                    11
                    I shall only tell you a bon-mot of Keith's, the marriage-broker, and conclude.
                    The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2
                    12
                    They treasure a bon mot; a good malapropism or a splendidly outrageous mixed metaphor.
                    The Irish Times
                    13
                    The King is still wind-bound; the fashionable bon mot is, that the to sea.
                    The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1
                    14
                    The bon mot of the current number of The S.M.M.
                    Not that it Matters
                    15
                    His passion is mature, self-sustained and never at a loss for the mot propre.
                    Chopin : the Man and His Music
                    16
                    Each bon-mot of mine has cost a purse of gold.
                    Essays — Second Series
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