noun:

• two-country model (esp. China and Taiwan); two-country doctrine

noun:

• Evenki (people of Mongolia and Russia)

noun:

• corn dog (frankfurter on a stick dipped in batter and deep-fried) - From English "American dog"

noun / ~する noun:

• being blocked (and contained); reduced circumstances

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• Sunni Triangle (area of Iraq bounded by Baghdad, Ramadi and Tikrit)

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• interpreting (and using) a passage without regard to its context - four character idiom

noun:

• Japan's Three Holy Mountains (Mt. Fuji, Mt. Tate and Mt. Haku)

noun:

• stable period (with ref. to pregnancy, typically from 4th month when the placenta is fully formed, morning sickness usually goes away and risk of miscarriage decreases)

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• functioning cuff buttons on a jacket (i.e. those that can be buttoned and unbuttoned) ➜ 本開き
• surgeon's cuffs

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• pigeon chest (Pectus carinatum, deformity of the chest, protruding ribs and sternum); pigeon breast
• woman with big breasts - colloquialism

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• hundred times worship (e.g. visiting a shrine or temple a hundred times for prayer, walking back and forth a hundred times before a shrine offering a prayer each time) ➜ 御百度

noun:

• Mont Blanc (chestnut and cream dessert) - From French

noun:

• eave-end roof tile (comprising a convex semi-cylindrical tile and a decorative pendant) - archaism ➜ 軒丸瓦

noun:

• rasbora (small minnow-like fish of genera Boraras, Microrasbora, Rasbora, and Trigonostigma)

noun:

• Neurospora crassa (species of red bread mould)

noun:

• the four great families of the age (esp. the Minamoto clan, the Taira clan, the Fujiwara clan and the Tachibana clan)
• varna (each of the four Hindu castes) ➜ ヴァルナ

noun:

• Shikoku region (incl. Tokushima, Kagawa, Ehime and Kochi prefectures)

noun:

• Japanese catshark (Apristurus japonicus, found in Chiba Prefecture and the East China Sea)

noun:

• Hamaguri Gomon incident (1864 clash between pro and anti-shogunate forces)

noun:

• any butterfly of family Pieridae (incl. the white butterflies and the sulfur butterflies)

noun:

• primula (any flower of genus Primula, which includes primroses, cowslips and cyclamens)

noun:

• ukiyo-e print produced with various shades of indigo (and sometimes small amounts of vermilion or yellow)
• staining a pattern on fabric or paper by rubbing it with indigo leaves

noun:

• saz (Near-Eastern and Central-Asian lute-like instrument) - From Turkish "saz"

noun:

• user needs (generally in market research and IT)

noun:

• hakama without gussets (worn by female students and later male students in the Meiji period); hakama without gores - archaism