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[ noun ] anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found
Used in print (Howard Nemerov, "Themes and Methods: The Early...)His name is Praisegod_Piepsam , and he is rather fully described as_to his clothing and physiognomy in_a_way which relates him to a sinister type in the author 's repertory - he is a forerunner of those enigmatic strangers in `` Death_in_Venice '' , for_example , who represent some combination of cadaver , exotic , and psychopomp . (John Michael Ray, "Rhode Island's Reactions...)Extraordinary precautions were taken so that no stranger be allowed_in the city and no citizen within the enclosure surrounding the scaffold . (Clayton C. Barbeau, The Ikon....)Sensing the unseen presence of the other men in the patrol , he felt mutely united to these nine near strangers sharing this pinpoint of being with him . In France he had puzzled the meaning of the great stone monuments men had thrown up to the sky , and always as he wandered , he felt a stranger to their exultation . (Louis Zara, Dark Rider....)But the stranger was nimbler still . |
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