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hard-shell

Translation
hard-shell
/hahrd"shel'/, adj.
1. Also, hard-shelled.
2. having a firm, hard shell, as a crab in its normal state; not having recently molted.
3. rigid or uncompromising.
n.
[1790-1800]

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Universalium. 2010.

  
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