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galère
ga-LUR
noun
an unsavory group of individuals; a group of similar individuals
1931Hugh WalpoleAbove the Dark TumultBut, mystery of mysteries, what had Osmund to do in this galère? Osmund, the aristocrat, to be mixed in this degraded crowd, and involved in a burglary as common and vulgar as any in the cheapest novelette!1968John Le CarreA Small Town In GermanyIn six months he's changed the whole galère.1986Martin AmisThe Moronic Inferno & Other Visits to AmericaIn such a galère, literary comrades are doing pretty well if they are merely 'ghastly'…

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