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verboten

/ˌfəɹˈboʊt(ə)n/

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What does verboten mean?

adjective

  1. (humorous) (Strictly) forbidden or prohibited.

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/ˌfəɹˈboʊt(ə)n/

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Here tulips bloom as they are told; Unkempt about those hedges blows An English unofficial rose; And there the unregulated sun Slopes down to rest when day is done, And wakes a vague unpunctual star, A slippered Hesper; and there are Meads towards Haslingfield and Coton Where das Betreten's not verboten.
Rupert BrookeThe Collected Poems of Rupert BrookeProject Gutenberg ebook #262