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colleen

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as in sheila

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Love the artwork on your book cover, with the dangerous looking senorita along with freaky birds and trees you're known for.

— Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 19 Dec. 2019
Football managers reared their boogie heads once again this term when a video surfaced of Pep Guardiola doing his best at courting the attentions of a Spanish senorita.

— SI.com, SI.com, 6 June 2019

Definition of senorita

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This cake type was the sort fed to train and trench weary doughboys by Great War doughnut lassies (or doughnut dollies, depending) and flour, baking powder, sugar, and lard were all in good supply for the duration.

— Jody Mamone, Hartford Courant, 19 Dec. 2024
Here’s your chance, lads and lassies, to snap up a historic home in Scotland from one of the United States’ most beloved musicians.

— Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 20 Sep. 2023

Definition of lassie

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The plot imperative of future Irina surviving to play a significant role in later seasons of For All Mankind gives us so much runway to imagine wild twists and turns for this crafty lass.

— Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 10 July 2026
Laborious yet lithe lads and lasses have loyally leapt to luminate the lexical labyrinths of logic locking the lucrative lotto, longing to lure the lavish luxury lying latently in local landmarks.

— Jared Kaufman, Twin Cities, 28 Jan. 2026

Definition of lass

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Kemper and her older sister (far left) posed with another deb dressed in pink, Reagan Sacks (far right), who brought some drama to the blush color in a tulle Schiaparelli gown.

— Zoey Lyttle, PEOPLE, 2 Dec. 2025
The viral video showed Martin, dressed in custom blue Valentino, in a moment with another deb, French countess Aliénor Loppin de Montmort.

— Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 18 Dec. 2024

Definition of deb

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In the $200,000 San Clemente Handicap 35-1 longshot Somerset West (Armando Ayuso) outran nine other 3-year-old fillies, including three formidable challengers who shipped in from the east.

— Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 July 2026
This day in sports history 1946 — Two-year-old fillies Chakoora and Uleta become the first thoroughbreds to complete a transcontinental flight.

— Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2026

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