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  • 21Chanthaburi Province — Chanthaburi จันทบุรี   Province   …

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  • 22Breast — The milk engorged breast of a pregnant woman …

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  • 23Augustan drama — [ riot at Covent Garden s Royal Theatre in 1762 over a rumored increase in ticket prices. Although drama declined in the Augustan era, it was still popular entertainment.] Augustan drama can refer to the dramas of Ancient Rome during the reign of …

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  • 24gentle — [13] Expressions like ‘of gentle birth’, and related forms such as gentility [14] and gentleman [13] point up the original link between gentle and ‘family, stock, birth’. The word comes via Old French gentil from Latin gentīlis, a derivative of… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 25gentle — [13] Expressions like ‘of gentle birth’, and related forms such as gentility [14] and gentleman [13] point up the original link between gentle and ‘family, stock, birth’. The word comes via Old French gentil from Latin gentīlis, a derivative of… …

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  • 26Etiquette — Et i*quette , n. [F. prop., a little piece of paper, or a mark or title, affixed to a bag or bundle, expressing its contents, a label, ticket, OF.estiquete, of German origin; cf. LG. stikke peg, pin, tack, stikken to stick, G. stecken. See… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 27civil — adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French, from Latin civilis, from civis Date: 14th century 1. a. of or relating to citizens b. of or relating to the state or its citizenry < civil strife > 2. a …

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  • 28Ostrich leather — is the result of tanning skins taken from African ostriches farmed for their feathers, skin and meat. The leather is distinctive for its pattern of bumps or vacant quill follicles, ranged across a smooth field in varying densities. It requires an …

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  • 29etiquette — noun a) The forms required by good breeding, or prescribed by authority, to be observed in social or official life; observance of the proprieties of rank and occasion; conventional decorum; ceremonial code of polite society. b) The customary&#8230; …

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  • 30intelligentsia — Nowadays this term is loosely applied to any educated stratum of society normally including intellectuals and managers which has an interest in ideas. Historically, the use of the term has been more restricted, and although its origins are&#8230; …

    Dictionary of sociology