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spartan
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spartan with a lowercase "s"

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    After so many months and years of dirty streets and peeling paint, of gray uniforms and spartan barracks, it was astounding that there could still be beauty in the world.  (source)
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    It's quite a spartan room.  (source)
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    Inside the spartan office were two large framed photographs: president Bill Clinton and a highly decorated Naval officer.  (source)
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    She lived in a spotlessly clean, spartan flat on the ground floor.  (source)
    spartan = plain and simple, with few comforts or luxuries
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    Having broken out of his own Spartanism, he remade the Trask household, and Adam gave him no opposition.†  (source)
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    It's a spartan building with a corrugated steel roof that shakes so badly when a plane passes overhead, she half expects it to collapse.  (source)
    spartan = plain and simple, without extras
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    Werner makes his way alone to a spartan hostel six blocks away, where he rents a bed for two marks a night and lies among muttering itinerants and listens to the pigeons and bells and shuddering traffic of Essen.  (source)
    spartan = plain and simple, with few comforts or luxuries
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    Mr. Curtain's desk, a dull-polished, Spartan metal affair, was carefully organized with file boxes and short stacks of paper.  (source)
    Spartan = plain and basic without extras
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    The room was spartan—hardwood floors, a pine dresser, a canvas mat in the corner that served as his bed.  (source)
    spartan = plain and simple, with few comforts or luxuries
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    Fear washed over her, as it had in the Spartan temple.†  (source)
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    ThE CREEK HOUSE KITCHEN WAS A SPARTAN AFFAIR, LIT by cold fluorescent strips whose casing had become coffins for an assortment of insects.†  (source)
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    She looked about the crowd, picking out friends and neighbors, Mrs. Meade with her bonnet askew and her arm through that of fifteen-year-old Phil; the Misses McLure trying to make their trembling upper lips cover their buck teeth; Mrs. Elsing, erect as a Spartan mother, betraying her inner turmoil only by the straggling gray locks that hung from her chignon; and Fanny Elsing white as a ghost.†  (source)
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    So, with Spartan firmness, the young authoress laid her first-born on her table, and chopped it up as ruthlessly as any ogre.†  (source)
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    I'm no Spartan and hold up an anemic wrist to prove it.  (source)
    Spartan = someone from the ancient city-state of Sparta -- know for being tough and strictly self-disciplined
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    The finale was supposed to be a couple of hundred-foot-tall Spartan warriors who would crackle to life above the ocean, fight a battle, then explode into a million colors.  (source)
    Spartan = people of the ancient Greece city-state of Sparta
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    The Spartan quarterback lost his footing in the mud before any of our guys reached him.  (source)
    Spartan = team nickname
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    On third and inches inside their own twenty, the Spartan quarterback faked a handoff to the fullback.  (source)
    Spartan = team nickname
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    Perhaps in Orchomenos, perhaps in sandy Pylos or off in the Spartan plains with Menelaus?  (source)
    Spartan = of the ancient Greece city-state of Sparta
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