Durance

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Webster's Dictionary [1]

(1): ( n.) In modern manufacture, a worsted of one color used for window blinds and similar purposes.

(2): ( n.) A stout cloth stuff, formerly made in imitation of buff leather and used for garments; a sort of tammy or everlasting.

(3): ( n.) Imprisonment; restraint of the person; custody by a jailer; duress. Shak.

(4): ( n.) Continuance; duration. See Endurance.

The Nuttall Encyclopedia [2]

A tributary of the Rhône, which, after a rapid course of 180 m., falls into that river by its left bank 3 m. below Avignon.

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