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      "ri\u02c8sp\u025bkt\u0259b\u0259l",
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            "mean": "Deserving respect.\nHis accomplishments, morals, loyalty, and stature make him a respectable person.\n1892, Walter Besant, chapter III, in The Ivory Gate\u00a0, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers,\u00a0, \u2192OCLC:In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitu\u00e9s, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass. In this way all respectable burgesses, down to fifty years ago, spent their evenings."
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