Word: compleat
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...life is a road map of modern architecture. The turns it took were his turns, the direction he pointed became the thruway. He is the compleat designer-of everything from kitchen cabinets to entire cities...
...rarely finds more than a few sentences about him in the official histories. Ten years ago he returned to the California coast where he was born, buying a house in Santa Monica that once belonged to Charlie Chaplin. He still keeps studios in Europe, and, at 49, remains the compleat internationalist...
...rank skirmishers in the U.S.'s war on narcotics. The BNDD agent's business is basically intelligence; he deals with small-time pushers and "mules" (couriers), as well as international traffickers, in any number of situations and any number of languages. He must be, in short, the compleat narc...
...include a Marine Corps N.C.O. from North Carolina and, in New Jersey's Lilith Grotto, a real estate broker and an insurance executive. Beyond such devotees, La Vey's sinister balderdash reaches hundreds of thousands more through the black gospel of The Satanic Bible and his second book, The Compleat Witch, in which his advice reaches the downright sordid...
Fraser is so far best known as the spoofing inventor of Henry Paget Flashman (Flashman, 1969, and Royal Flash, 1970), the compleat bounder. He thus comes to the reivers with an acute understanding of unsporting behavior. It stands him in excellent stead. After Henry VIII defeated the Scots at Solway Moss in 1542, for example, the fleeing survivors were held for ransom by their own border countrymen...