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deep-dish apple dessert covered with a rich crust primly out of date; "nothing so frumpish as last year''s gambling game" unfashionable lacking in smartness or taste; "a dowdy gray outfit"; "a clean and sunny but completely dowdy room" styleless British marshal of the RAF who commanded the British air defense forces that defeated the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain (1882-1970) |
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