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Definition
calm and not easily excited
- When it exploded, the placid air was apt to be rent by Creole curses.Chapters 3-4 (57% in)
- Dish himself had napped from time to time, the day being hot and the horse herd placid.Chapters 13-14 (76% in)
- The summer days were long and slow, the herd placid, the heat intense.Chapters 83-84 (9% in)
There are no more uses of "placid" in Lonesome Dove.
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