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  • Breakfast consists of plain, unbuttered bread and ersatz coffee.  (source)
    ersatz = an inferior imitation of
  • The nurses threw him another party, the ersatz bourbon went down easy, and there was a moonlit jeep ride with a pretty girl.†  (source)
  • The girl who is thus far nameless lies on her bed of red brocade, awaiting the ersatz Lord of the Underworld and saying a wordless farewell to this life.†  (source)
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  • Can your ersatz identification make it possible?†  (source)
  • They wore different clothes: oversized ersatz sports apparel so loose fitting that every stiff breeze threatened to leave them naked in the streets.†  (source)
  • The blind innkeeper said that the Americans could sleep in his stable that night, and he gave them soup and ersatz coffee and a little beer.†  (source)
  • Even his reliable friends the Germans failed him in this crisis: they preferred ersatz.†  (source)
  • As she was leaving work, Roland Girard, the clinic's ersatz administrative director, invited her for coffee.†  (source)
  • A sentry woke him with breakfast: black bread and ersatz coffee.†  (source)
  • I don't want any ersatz soldiers, dragging their tails and ducking out when the party gets rough.†  (source)
  • Maybe you've done some of your thinking by now?" she said, between the salad and the ersatz beef.†  (source)
  • We'll have a barrel of funfunfun, the voices clamorously chorused from below, the dreadful ersatz polka stuck now in its groove, repeating over and over a faint fat chord from an accordion.†  (source)
  • To fill the demand of the new market, a new commodity was devised: ersatz culture, kitsch, destined for those who, insensible to the values of genuine culture, are hungry nevertheless for the diversion that only culture of some sort can provide.†  (source)
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