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Meaning of truff | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

  1. A truffle.
  2. The sea trout (a fish of the species Salmo trutta morpha trutta, closely related to salmon).
  3. A long stone that goes through the full thickness of a stone wall.

Examples

“The town is famous for its earth-nuts or truffs, and for the beauty of its women, who are ſaid to excel thoſe of any other part of Italy.”
“One of these pools is designated par excellence the otter pool, for as surely as the truff appear, so surely do the strong hovers hold an otter, nay, sometimes a brace or more, in attendance on the prey so bountifully supplied to them.”

CEFR level

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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