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Set-back   /sɛt-bæk/   Listen
Set-back

noun
1.
Structure where a wall or building narrows abruptly.  Synonyms: offset, setoff.






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"Set-back" Quotes from Famous Books



... his dragoman, "received a set-back in men's estimation at the time of the Great Skirmish, from which it has never properly recovered. For physical courage was then, for the first time, perceived to be most excessively common; it is, indeed, probably a mere attribute ...
— Another Sheaf • John Galsworthy



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