firm
/fɜɹm/ noun B1- A business enterprise, however organized.
- A criminal gang, especially based around football hooliganism.
Plural firms
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Heavily built and massive, there was a suggestion of uncouth physical inertia in the figure, but above this unwieldy frame there was perched a head so masterful in its brow, so alert in its steel-grey, deep-set eyes, so firm in its lips, and so subtle in its play of expression, that after the first glance one forgot the gross body and remembered only the dominant mind.
All I ask is, that Villefort will be firm and inflexible for the future in his political principles.
But I told him I was only mate, and that she belonged to the firm of Morrel & Son.
The Sea, assuming the form of a woman, replied to him: “Blame not me, my good sir, but the winds, for I am by my own nature as calm and firm even as this earth; but the winds suddenly falling on me create these waves, and lash me into fury.”
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