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  What it means

  Literally “to put away in the storage room/lumber room.” Means to discard something as obsolete, outdated, or no longer useful. “To consign to the scrap heap.”

  Vocabulary

  • lamus — storehouse for old things; lumber room

  Grammar note

  'Do lamusa' is the genitive case after 'do'.

  Cultural context

  A 'lamus' was historically a building on a manor estate used to store old tools and armor.

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