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So glad I saw this. I think in my mind I've always thought etiolate meant elongate, spread thin. Wonder what I read that made me mis-translate/replace it that way? Probably a writer used it to refer to a sickly child or something equivalent. Good to learn.
Last edited by allisondbl; 06/13/2011 8:18 PM.
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