flank

Definitions of flank
  1. noun
    the side between ribs and hipbone
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    type of:
    lichaamsdeel, lid
    any part of an organism such as an organ or extremity
  2. noun
    the side of military or naval formation
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    type of:
    opstelling, stelling
    an arrangement of people or things acting as a unit
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
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On his eleventh birthday, orphan Harry Potter learns the shocking truth: he's a wizard about to begin his education at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

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The Sea of Monsters
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In this second book of the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series, the thirteen-year-old demigod must travel through dangerous waters to save his best friend and retrieve the magical cure for the poison destroying Camp Half-Blood.

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The Stranger
Albert Camus

Translated by Matthew Ward, Camus’s seminal 1942 novel follows Meursault — a young Frenchman in Algeria — who is condemned for his unemotional response to the death of his mother.

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