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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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    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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    Having broken out of his own Spartanism, he remade the Trask household, and Adam gave him no opposition.†  (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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    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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    The room was spartan—hardwood floors, a pine dresser, a canvas mat in the corner that served as his bed.  (source)
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    Fear washed over her, as it had in the Spartan temple.†  (source)
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    The office was spartan, streamlined, and quiet as a church.†  (source)
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    Then he spoke to the Archbishop of the lay saint he had known in their long twilights of chess, he spoke of the dedication of his art to the happiness of children, his rare erudition in all things of this world, his Spartan habits, and he himself was surprised by the purity of soul with which Jeremiah de Saint-Amour had separated himself once and for all from his past.†  (source)
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    Years later, in the grip of self-myth and deep remoteness, Hitler kept a portrait of his mother in his spartan quarters at Obersalzberg.†  (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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