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== Other uses == ''Et cetera'' and derivatives such as ''etceteras'', have long been used airily, humorously or dismissively, often as a [[cadigan]]. For example: * ... he still wanted numberless appendages to make him a fine gentleman, such as a fashionable tailor and hairdresser, an unblushing confidence, together with a long train of etceteras. These fashionable introductories being wanting, Mr Whitmore was obliged to find a substitute...<ref>Helme, Elizabeth. "The farmer of Inglewood Forest: or, An affecting portrait of virtue and vice" Printed and Published by J. Cleave and Son, 1823</ref> (1823) * The cost of the locomotives and their etceteras, is to be $136000 β their wear and tear $75600. Etceteras $90000...<ref>The Farmer's register, Volume 1. Snowden & M'Corkle, 1834. (Google Books)</ref> (1834) * The etceteras: asteroids, comets and interplanetary dust are chemically speaking, "impurities" and are just a minuscule fraction of planetary matter.<ref>Degens, Egon T. "Perspectives on Biogeochemistry", Springer-Verlag 1989. {{ISBN|978-0387501918}}</ref> (1989) * Having tried "to recover myth outside the books," the hidalgo crosses paths with common sense, everyday toils, and the religious dictates of the Counter-Reformation on a journey that tries to rescue chivalric etceteras of old.<ref>Maiorino, Giancarlo. "First pages: a poetics of titles", [[Penn State Press]], 2008</ref> (2008) <code>[[/etc]]</code> is a [[directory (computing)|directory]] in [[UNIX-like]] operating systems, responsible mainly for storing system-wide configuration files, preferences, etc.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/etc.html|title=/etc|website=www.tldp.org|access-date=2017-07-06}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#ETCHOSTSPECIFICSYSTEMCONFIGURATION|title=Filesystem Hierarchy Standard|website=www.pathname.com|access-date=2017-07-06}}</ref>
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