orthodonture

orthodonture
/awr"theuh don'cheuhr/, n.
orthodontia (def. 2).
[1965-70; appar. b. ORTHODONTIA and DENTURE, prob. orig. (or exclusively) in r-less accents, in which both words end in /euh/]

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