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  • 1winding — winding, sinuous, serpentine, tortuous, flexuous can all mean curving first one way and then another. Winding, the general and the ordinary term, often implies spiral ascent {winding stairs} {a winding mountain road} When applied to things in a… …

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  • 2di|rec|tion — «duh REHK shuhn, dy », noun. 1. guidance; managing; control: »the direction of a play or motion picture. The school is under the direction of a good teacher. SYNONYM(S): management. 2. an order; command: »It was his direction that I prepare a… …

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  • 3Jausbert de Puycibot — or Gausbert de Poicibot or Puicibot, sometimes called Lo Monge de Poicibot (the monk of Poicibot) and elsewhere Audebert , [Also Mos Audebertz or En Jausbertz , probably the same person.] was a Limousin troubadour of the early thirteenth century… …

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  • 4Japanese literature — Introduction       the body of written works produced by Japanese authors in Japanese or, in its earliest beginnings, at a time when Japan had no written language, in the Chinese classical language.       Both in quantity and quality, Japanese… …

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