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   Placeholder name

   "Emmet" is a dialect word for "ant". ... In America, Joe or Jane Sixpack refers to the perceived average middle or working class person.
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   Jane Frank

   Her later painting refers more explicitly to aerial landscapes, while her sculpture tends toward minimalism. ... E. Kirkbride Miller Art Research Library at the Baltimore Museum of Art: catalogue listing for vertical file on Jane Frank (Click on the word "OK" — then type Jane Frank in the box and click the "subject" button.)
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   Jane Turpin

   Among her trademark distinctive speech is the substitution of the word "terrible" by the distorted form "terrable". ... Jane often refers to Vilet in the stories as the "greatest cook in the world".
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   Jane and the Dragon (TV series)

   This page refers to the television series. ... According to the backstory explained in the opening theme song, Jane received a chance to make her dream come true when the royal prince was kidnapped by a dragon.
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   The L Word

   Contemporary use of the phrase "the L word" as an alias for lesbian dates to at least the 1981 play My Blue Heaven by Jane Chambers, in which a character stammers out: "You're really …? ... In the movie, I Can't Think Straight, Yasmin, Leyla's sister, refers to the L word when trying to tell Leyla's ex, Ali, that Leyla and Tala are in love with each other.
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   The Sarah Jane Adventures

   Sarah Jane has her own sonic screwdriver, disguised as a lipstick, which she refers to as "sonic lipstick". ... Related articles
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   List of English words with disputed usage

   Gender traditionally refers to grammatical gender, a feature in the grammar of a number of different languages. ... OED attributes this usage as far back as 1420, and cites examples by Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, George Eliot, John Fletcher, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Hardy, Ben Jonson, Benjamin Jowett, Somerset Maugham, Alexander Pope, Anthony Trollope, William Tynedale, John Wyclif, and others. Neither M-W nor AHD4 notes any proscriptions on usage.
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   Lady Jane Grey

   Popular history sometimes refers to Lady Jane as "The Nine Days' Queen" or, less commonly, as "The Thirteen Days' Queen" owing to disagreements about the beginning of her claimed rule. ... With her head on the block, Jane spoke the last words of Christ as recounted by Luke: "Lord, into thy hands I commend my spirit!"
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   List of The Colbert Report episodes (2007)

   This introductory phrase very often inserts the word truth into a common phrase, such as "Apply truth liberally to the inflamed area," and "this is The Colbert Report" follows, though there are exceptions. ... | Stephen talks about the latest attack in DC, on him, by Rahm Emanuel. The Word refers to South Carolina proposing to allow prisoners to donate organs to reduce jail time.
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    Code word (figure of speech)

    Informal code word ... People of faith — in the U.S., refers generally to Christians

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• Jane Frank,
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• Jane and the Dragon (TV series),
• The L Word,
• The Sarah Jane Adventures,
• List of English words with disputed usage,
• Lady Jane Grey,
• List of The Colbert Report episodes (2007),
• Code word (figure of speech)