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Definition
to steal — especially in violation of trust
- I must be served at the fireside, she said; and she placed before me a little round stand with my cup and a plate of toast, absolutely as she used to accommodate me with some privately purloined dainty on a nursery chair: and I smiled and obeyed her as in bygone days.Chapter 21 (33% in)
There are no more uses of "purloin" in Jane Eyre.
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