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palindrome
palindrome,from παλίνδρομο<, ‘running back again’, a word, verse, or sentence that reads the same forwards or backwards, e.g.:
Lewd did I live & evil I did dweland the Latin line descriptive of moths:
( Phillips , 1706 )
In girum imus noctes et consumimur igni.
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