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• sharp drop; plunge; nosedive; slump; (value or amount) plummeting

noun:

• Buddhist image used as jewellery or to decorate one's home - obscure term

noun / ~の noun:

• eponym (word derived from the name of a place or person)

noun / ~の noun:

• eponym (word derived from the name of a place or person)

noun:

• blocking communications (from a phone number or an e-mail address)

noun:

• blocking communications (from a phone number or an e-mail address) - abbreviation - slang ➜ 着信拒否

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• mochi cut thin, dried, and baked or fried ➜ 餅

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• artificial food (fabricated to resemble rare or expensive foods)

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• flagstaff decorated with ivory carried by the emperor or a general

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• skewered fish (or vegetables, etc.) coated with miso and cooked

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• tongues (i.e. utterances or "languages" spoken during instances of glossolalia)

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• clans supposedly descended from foreign lineage (i.e. Chinese or Korean) ➜ 諸蕃

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• rice ball coated with sweetened red beans, soybean flour or sesame - obscure term ➜ 御萩

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• se (ancient Chinese plucked zither, usu. with 25 or 23 strings)

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• brushwood, etc. used as cultch for seaweed or oyster farming (culch)

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• tartan (i.e. plaid pattern or fabric) - From English "tartan check"

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• democide; the murder of any person or people by a government

noun / ~する noun:

• brushing

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• blushing (blotchiness or milkiness in paint applied to a surface)

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• (degree of) public interest in forthcoming event or performance; advance reviews

noun:

• omnibus term for the names of cities, wards, towns or villages

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• leather or cloth wrapped around the handle of a sword

noun:

• fee paid for the services of a geisha or prostitute

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• pillow made from bamboo or cane (for use during the summer)

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• visiting temples, shrines or tourist spots to collect commemorative seal stamps

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• ascending trench or pathway cut into a naturally-occurring slope ➜ 横堀【よこぼり】