| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| le Carré, John |
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| SYLLABICATION: | le Car·ré |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  l k -r  |
| DATES: | Born 1931 |
| VARIANTS: | Pen name of David John Moore Cornwell. |
| British writer of popular espionage novels, including The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963) and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1974).
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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