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• au pair — [əu ˈpeə US ou ˈper] n [Date: 1800 1900; : French; Origin: on equal terms ] a young person, usually a woman, who stays with a family in a foreign country to learn the language, and looks after their children for a small wage …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• au pair — noun (C) a young woman who stays with a family in a foreign country to learn the language and to look after their children …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

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• List of Code Lyoko episodes — This is a list of episodes for the French animated television series, Code Lyoko. The first season has no set viewing order save for the last two episodes, so it is listed by the order in which it aired. The following seasons have their episodes… …   Wikipedia

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• Shuichiro Oishi — Infobox animanga character name = Shuichiro Oishi series = The Prince of Tennis caption = first = last = creator = Takeshi Konomi voiced by = Takayuki Kondo (Japanese) Sam Riegel (English) age = born = April 30 class = 3 2 relatives = aux1 name …   Wikipedia