- saracen's-stones
- [,særəsnz'stəunz]
English-Russian Great Britain dictionary (Великобритания. Лингвострановедческий словарь). 2014.
English-Russian Great Britain dictionary (Великобритания. Лингвострановедческий словарь). 2014.
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