dun

Các nghĩa

1. pháo đài cổ (đặc biệt là pháo đài trên đồi ở Scotland hoặc Ireland)

   A collector of debts, especially one who is insistent and demanding.

   countable

   Melancholy duns came looking for him at all hours.

   ‘Frank's worried about duns,’ she said as the butler went away.

2. nhà tròn có tường bao quanh (ở Orkney, Shetland hoặc Scotland)

   An urgent request or demand of payment.

   Miss Hoppin received a dun for volume 9 1840–1 which Mr. James McConnell, (who now pays the above) is sure was paid.

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• duns plural

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