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1. dawamesc<\/strong> (also Dawamesk<\/strong>) \u2014 greenish edible paste or marmalade consisting of hashish mixed with butter, sugar or honey, pistachios, cinnamon and other spices, musk, nutmeg, pine nuts, orange juice<\/p>\n

Perhaps the Algerian <\/em>dawamesc was the first introduction into Europe of cannabis edibles, being served in 1844 at the Club des Hashischins in Paris.<\/em><\/p>\n

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2. leather gun<\/strong> \u2014 early light cannon of the 1640s & 1650s, where toughened leather wrappings were placed around the more portable smaller barrel in an attempt to give it stability<\/p>\n

Gustavus Adolphus hoped that his <\/em>leather guns would give him an edge over his opponents, but the experiment proved a failure as the guns usually could not fire even a dozen shells before bursting.<\/em><\/p>\n

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3. Krishnacore<\/strong> \u2014 musical subgenre mixing hardcore punk with Krishna Consciousness<\/p>\n

Naturally straight edge musicians are most often associated with the rise of <\/em>Krishnacore, but Poly Styrene’s became a follower of the Hare Krishna movement as early as 1983.<\/em><\/p>\n

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4. swizz<\/strong> \u2014 [British informal<\/em>] to be disappointed, to be cheated<\/p>\n

So I finally pushed through the crowd and found my seat, and of course\u2014<\/em>swizzed again!\u2014it was directly behind a I-beam pillar supporting the upper deck.<\/em><\/p>\n

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5. smellfungus<\/strong> \u2014 [archaic<\/em>] one who finds faults, grumbler<\/p>\n

It’s all well and good to sigh and say that she’s just an inveterate <\/em>smellfungus but that does nothing to make her lengthy visits less interminable nor less intolerable.<\/em><\/p>\n

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6. picaresque<\/strong> \u2014 of or related to rogues and their adventures; of Spanish satire dating from 16th Century depicting such rogues and such adventure<\/p>\n

George Plimpton famously identified Pynchon’s first novel <\/em>V. as a <\/em>picaresque story of heroes living outside of normal society, and indeed almost all of the notoriously reclusive author’s works might be so described.<\/em><\/p>\n

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7. biandry<\/strong> \u2014 the state of having two husbands at the same time<\/p>\n

Since she was not technically a bigamist, there was some question whether she could be charged at all, or whether <\/em>biandry was even a crime in this state.<\/em><\/p>\n

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8. churl<\/strong> \u2014 boor; [archaic<\/em>] freeman of lowest status under feudalism; [archaic<\/em>] peasant<\/p>\n

I had expected Bronson to be upset, but I didn’t think he’d be such a <\/em>churl as to barricade the gates to the farm.<\/em><\/p>\n

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9. rubato<\/strong> \u2014 [music<\/em>] expressive phrasing of music by use of non-strict tempo, often by slight speeding up of tempo followed by slowing to the original beat<\/p>\n

In “Kind Of Blue” Paul Chamber’s bass keeps a strict tempo which allows the other musicians to employ <\/em>rubato in their solos, which tension gives the piece part of its power.<\/em><\/p>\n

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10. triblet<\/strong> \u2014 conical tapering shaft used for adjusting size of metal objects such as rings<\/p>\n

If you don’t know your ring size I can just pop your gold band on my marked <\/em>triblet and we can find out right quick.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Bonus Vocabulary<\/h4>\n

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round Robin Hood’s barn<\/strong> \u2014 by a circuitous route, in a roundabout manner<\/p>\n

So I thought, why ask my lawyer to talk to his lawyer to inquire about the best means of determining et cetera and so forth, when instead of such shilly-shallying and going <\/em>round Robin Hood’s barn I could just pick up the phone and directly ask the man himself?<\/em><\/p>\n

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1. dawamesc (also Dawamesk) \u2014 greenish edible paste or marmalade consisting of hashish mixed with butter, sugar or honey, pistachios, cinnamon and other spices, musk, nutmeg, pine nuts, orange juice Perhaps the Algerian dawamesc was the first introduction into Europe of cannabis edibles, being served in 1844 at the Club des Hashischins in Paris.   … <\/p>\n

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