browning

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Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

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Definition

noun United States inventor of firearms (especially automatic pistols and repeating rifles and a machine gun called the Peacemaker) (1855-1926)
noun English poet and husband of Elizabeth Barrett Browning noted for his dramatic monologues (1812-1889)
noun English poet best remembered for love sonnets written to her husband Robert Browning (1806-1861)

POEMS BY ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING. — The Talking Horse, and Other Tales, F. Anstey
Browning as a Religious Teacher. — Through Finland in Carts, Mrs. (Ethel) Alec-Tweedie
But beautiful, too--like Browning, only better?' — Doctor Cupid: A Novel, Rhoda Broughton

John M. Browning, John Moses Browning

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