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chimère

chimère
 n.— Â«â€œI have a mother, a wife, children, why would I vote? I could be shot by a chimere,” said Kapito, 40, an unemployed taxi driver who gave only his first name, using a pejorative term to refer to armed pro-Aristide militants.» â€”“‘We have a new enemy’ in Haiti” by Reed Lindsay in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti Dallas Morning News (Texas) June 5, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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