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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
trope /trəʊp/
▶noun a figurative or metaphorical use of a word or expression.
– origin C16: via L. from Gk tropos ‘turn, way, trope’, from trepein ‘to turn’.
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