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Definition
very serious, unhappy, and unfriendly
- And the typical Gravesend families were plain and dour in the face of death; we had few calls for elaborate coping, even fewer for archways with dosserets, and not one for angels sliding down barber poles.p. 444.4
There are no more uses of "dour" in A Prayer for Owen Meany.
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