n. A feeling for language; an ear for the idiomatically correct or appropriate. [German : Sprache, language (from Middle High German sprāche, from Old High German sprāhha) + Gefühl, feeling (from fühlen, to feel, from Middle High German vuelen, from Old High German vuolen; see pāl- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots).] |
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