dur

Pedigree is neither a Maigret novel nor a roman dur; it does not seem much like a Simenon novel either.

Son style est chti et correct, quoique un peu dur et sec; son ton est grave et soutenu.

Ambassador, am-bas′a-dur, n. a diplomatic minister of the highest order sent by one sovereign power to another:—fem.

Mr. Hicks said: "I was with him every day dur- ing the latter part of his last sickness."

Feyther durn't tell mother for his life as he helped me; her durn't tell him as her helped me.

There's a window theer, an' a dur-hole, an' some moor odd bits abeawt it, of an owdish mak.