specimen

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B1 — Intermediate

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From Latin specimen (“mark, sign, example”), from speciō (“observe, watch”).

Morris and Skeat's Specimens of Early English. — From Chaucer to Tennyson: With Twenty-Nine Portraits and Selections from Thirty Authors, Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
"Is it such a very wonderful specimen?" — The Big Four, Agatha Christie
7 and 20 are specimens similar to No. — The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido: For the Suppression of Piracy, Henry, Sir Keppel

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