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staple
noun
A town containing merchants who have exclusive right, under royal authority, to purchase or produce certain goods for export; also, the body of such merchants seen as a group.
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The Wells' annual hip-hop festival has become a staple of the dance diary and now, in its 12th year, it celebrates its success with a broad programme of British and international work.
Soft, sweet, spicy and satisfying, it has become a work lunch staple, simmering away behind me on the hob as I write at my kitchen table.
"They're re-emerging as a summer staple," says Matchesfashion.com's head of menswear, Damien Paul.
It was my grandmother who taught me the basics of making a curry – her staple food and mine.
Meanwhile, plummeting demand has prompted Asda to pull string vests, once a staple male undergarment, from its shelves.
There could be bad blood between the partners – even without the prospect of a showdown in what used to be a staple of byelection sensations, a Lib Dem-Conservative marginal.
Much like Jesus with the water and the wine, Alexa Chung wearing a beige apron with a navy shirt – a little bit Marni, a little bit Jil Sander – on The Great Comic Relief Bake Off last night sounds blah, but will no doubt see the pinny evolve into a festival staple this summer.
Your song 'Fairytale of New York' has become a Christmas staple.
Will people be reassured that they can adapt to losing their homes and livelihoods in bushfires and floods or have the supply of staple food crops disrupted?
"Mind the gap" announcements have long been a feature of the capital's travel network since the first Tannoy warnings in 1969, and the phrase has become a staple of tourist merchandise.
Related: Cash from cassava: better breeds of the staple will boost development "I need to visually explain the facts about nutrition to women," says Kayentoo, referencing the fact that less than a third of adult women are literate in Mali.
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