Definition of Medal

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MEDAL noun

	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.

		definition from: *The Devil's Dictionary* by Ambrose Bierce, 1911

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