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King's boring flair for language (5)

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I believe the answer is:

norse

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'language' is the definition.
(Norse is an example)

'king's boring flair' is the wordplay.
'king's' becomes 'R's' (abbreviation for rex, king in Latin).
'boring' is an insertion indicator (some letters must 'bore' a hole into other letters).
'flair' becomes 'noe' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'rs' placed within 'noe' is 'NORSE'.

'for' is the link.

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(Other definitions for norse that I've seen before include "Of old Scandinavia" , "Relating to ancient Scandinavia" , "Family of Germanic languages spoken in Scandinavia and Iceland" , "Native to Norway" , "Old Scandinavian tongue" .)

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