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Alan W

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Word suggestion: metropole
« on: May 23, 2021, 02:33:41 PM »
Occasionally somebody sends me a suggestion via email. But I think this is the first time I've received a suggestion resulting from a Chihuahua puzzle book.

My correspondent had been playing puzzle 2 in the 7-by-many puzzles book, Volume 3, and was unhappy that metropole wasn't listed in the solutions. I don't think I was aware of this word, other than as a hotel name. But it is listed, in lower case, in a number of dictionaries, including the online Oxford and Merriam-Webster and Wiktionary. It has a few meanings, but the main ones seem to be the parent state of a colony, or the main town of a territory.

A recent usage example is from the Washington Examiner of 6 May:

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...her thesis that the “erasure of empire” is rooted in a “fundamental incompatibility between the imperial project and British institutions developed in the metropole” is necessarily more speculative.

I've added metropole as a rare word. The letters for this word may not yet have come up in a daily puzzle, but they probably will some time.
Alan Walker
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