Entry: legate (n.)
In context: "But in the Year of Dairy Products from the American Heartland it was Hal, not she, who, when the veiled legate from the Union of the Hideously and Improbably Deformed showed up..."
Definition: 2. gen. An ambassador, delegate, messenger.
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SNOOT score: 1
Page: 317
Source: Oxford English Dictionary
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