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splendour en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈsplɛndə/ (Received-Pronunciation)
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- /ˈsplɛndɚ/ (General-American)
Meanings
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(uncountable, usually) British, Canadian, Ireland, South Africa, Australian, and New Zealand standard spelling of splendor.
If the kind of network we envisage is to be established, it would be unwise to begin any of its services hurriedly with older stock, which, however admirable in its day, now has an air of faded Edwardian splendour that is out of joint with the times.
1962 December, “A new Pullman era?”, in Modern Railways, page 362:
Forms
Deriveds
splendourous · outsplendour