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[ruːz], (Noun)
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- an action intended to deceive someone; a trick
(e.g: Emma tried to think of a ruse to get Paul out of the house)
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late Middle English (as a hunting term): from Old French, from ruser ‘use trickery’, earlier ‘drive back’, perhaps based on Latin rursus ‘backwards’
[ˈruːseɪ], (Noun)
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- an industrial city and the principal port of Bulgaria, on the River Danube; population 156,959 (2008). Turkish during the Middle Ages, it was captured by Russia in 1877 and ceded to Bulgaria
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