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- Subject: Re: An observation
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- >lludd> webster 'melba toast'
- >mel.ba toast \.mel-b*-\ n [Nellie Melba -1931 Austral soprano] : very thin
- > bread toasted till crisp
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- That Nellie must have been some kind of eater, to have *two* foods
- named after her.
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