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stour

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Adj — Tall, large or sturdily built.

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Comes from Middle English store, stoor, stour ("tall, powerful"), from Old English stōr ("tall, great, mighty, strong"), from Proto-West Germanic *stōr, from Proto-Germanic *stōraz, *stōrijaz ("great, big, strong"), from Proto-Indo-European *stā-r-, *stō-r- ("steadfast, firm; standing tall; big, bulky"). Cognates inclu...

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