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Date: 1500-1600
Language: French
Origin: Latin adagium

adage

 noun
     
Related topics: Linguistics
ad‧age [countable]
SL a well-known phrase that says something wise about human experience [= proverb]:
the old adage that a picture is worth a thousand words
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