MEDAL, N. A Small Metal Disk Given As A Reward For Virtues, Attainments Or Services More Or Less Authentic.

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MEDAL, n. A small metal disk given as a reward for virtues,
attainments or services more or less authentic.
It is related of Bismark, who had been awarded a medal for
gallantly rescuing a drowning person, that, being asked the meaning of
the medal, he replied: "I save lives sometimes." And sometimes he
didn't.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

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