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Primus

[ US /ˈpɹaɪməs/ ]
[ UK /pɹˈɪməs/ ]
NOUN
  1. a portable paraffin cooking stove; used by campers

How To Use Primus In A Sentence

  • On a shelf underneath was a huge and ancient Primus stove.
  • In the first year of her tenure, ten years before her death, Primus staged Excerpts From an African Journey, a suite of traditional dances.
  • And this is the most frequent application of the terms actus primus and actus secundus. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
  • He boiled water just outside the flap, on a little primus, leaning forward to tend it. PROSPECT HILL
  • Buckets and spades hung up in the beach hut, the Primus stove put back on the garage shelf as autumn winds sigh through the marram grass. Archive 2007-09-01
  • Stephen of Antioch's full translation appears in a 1523 edition, Haly filius abbas Liber totius medicine necessaria … regalis dispositionis nomen assumpsit (Lyon, Typis Jacobi Myt), Liber primus Practice, chap. 19 — 21, fols. 151ra — 153va. A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
  • I had the opportunity page through Frederik Ruysch's amazing Thesaurus animalium primus... Archive 2007-10-01
  • Pack the barbie or primus stove and enjoy the great outdoors.
  • Acci fuit, ut his consulibus xl. annos natus Ennius fuerit: cui si aequalis fuerit Livius, minor fuit aliquanto is, qui primus fabulam dedit, quam ei, qui multas docuerant ante hos consules, et Plautus et The Student's Companion to Latin Authors
  • Since 1704 the chief bishop of the Anglican church, designated the Primus, is elected from among the Scottish diocesans.
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