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Taking-off   Listen
noun
Taking-off  n.  
1.
Removal; murder. See To take off (c), under Take, v. t. "The deep damnation of his taking-off."
2.
(Print.) The removal of sheets from the press. (Eng.)
3.
Act of presenting a take-off, or burlesque imitation.





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"Taking-off" Quotes from Famous Books



... knights and ladies, all generally so merry, were now either oppressed by a real sorrow or were required by court etiquette to renounce all pleasures. In this lonely stronghold Lucretia could lament, undisturbed, the taking-off of the handsome youth who had been her husband for two years, and together with whom she had dwelt in this same castle scarcely a twelve-month before. There was nothing to disturb her melancholy brooding; but, ...
— Lucretia Borgia - According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day • Ferdinand Gregorovius


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