applique
Definitions of applique
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a support projecting from a wall (as to hold a shelf)type of:supportany device that bears the weight of another thing
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a lamp that stands on the floor
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Vocabulary lists containing applique
Internment
Layla Amin thinks of herself as a typical American teenager. But when Muslim-Americans like Layla and her family are forcibly relocated to internment camps, the seventeen-year-old decides to fight for her freedom.
"The Overcoat" by Nikolai Gogol
In this classic Russian short story, a low-level bureaucrat's life is upended when he attempts to purchase a new overcoat. Learn these words from the translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.
