tar
/tɑɹ/ noun B2- Coal tar.
- (often typeset "tar" in USA) A solid residual byproduct of tobacco smoke.
- A sailor (because of the traditional tarpaulin clothes).
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Were hunter, soldier, tar,
They were hungry, and the smell of the roasted kid was very savory, and your tars are not very ceremonious.
Returning to France, I spent some months in a research into the coal-tar derivatives, which I conducted in a laboratory at Montpellier, in the south of France.
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