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  1. Arabic `empty quarter'. vast sandy desert in
  2. S Saudi Arabia; area 650,000 sq km/250,000 sq
  3. mi. The British explorer Bertram Thomas
  4. (1892-1950) was the first European to cross
  5. it 1930-31.
  6.