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Nov 28, 2009
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des



Pronunciation: (dā), [key]
—prep.
used in French names as a contraction of de and the article les: François des Adrets.

-des




a plural suffix appearing in loanwords from Greek: proboscides.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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