Durance

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  • noun. Confinement or restraint by force; imprisonment.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Duration; continuance; endurance.
  • noun. Imprisonment; restraint of the person; involuntary confinement of any kind.
  • noun. Any material supposed to be of remarkable durability, as buff-leather; especially, a strong cloth made to replace and partly to imitate buff-leather; a variety of tammy. Sometimes written durant, and also called ererlasting.
  • noun. A kind of apple.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Continuance; duration. See endurance.
  • noun. Imprisonment; restraint of the person; custody by a jailer; duress. Shak.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A stout cloth stuff, formerly made in imitation of buff leather and used for garments; a sort of tammy or everlasting.
  • noun. In modern manufacture, a worsted of one color used for window blinds and similar purposes.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Duration.
  • noun. Endurance.
  • noun. Imprisonment; forced confinement.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. imprisonment (especially for a long time)
  • Word Usage
    "As Murk languishes in durance vile, someone decides to change the game."
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