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midinette
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noun
  1. A female salesperson, a shopgirl, especially in Paris; a vacuous young woman.
    • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 611:
    • :This? One finds them in every other "s haunt, literally for sous.
      1. A type of rose.
modus operandi
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idiom (modi operandi)
  1. (idiom): A person or thing's normal mode of operation.
  2. (law enforcement) A known criminal's established habits and mode of work when committing specific offences, especially fraud, matched with characteristics of an unsolved crime to narrow down (limit to a specific list) or profile suspects.

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