Calzone (n): An Italian delicacy made from pizza dough folded into a semicircle with sauce and toppings inside.

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Vogue (n): The latest trend or fashion; a period during which a style or object is particularly fashionable.

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Minervois (n): Area in the Languedoc-Roussillon wine-producing region of France; a red wine from this region.

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Safety razor (n): A product introduced in the late 18th century to make shaving a less hazardous occupation.

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Big Top (n): The large, mostly circular tent in which a circus performance takes place.

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Noche de los Rábanos: A Mexican festival celebrated annually on December 23 in Oaxaca city and featuring radish sculptures.

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Asterisk (n): A punctuation mark with several different uses including indicating a footnote, flagging up an omission or highlighting something the author feels is important.

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Livid (n): A dark bluish-grey in colour.

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Whippletree (n): An archaic name for dogwood used by Chaucer, or a load-bearing mechanism connecting horses or oxen to a cart or other piece of agricultural equipment.

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Suffrage (n): The right to have political representation and to vote in elections.

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Penny gaff: A Victorian slang term for a cheap or vulgar fairground attraction.

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Troposphere (n): The lowest layer of the earth’s atmosphere and the place where clouds form.

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Clock (n): A device, often decorative as well as functional, used for measuring the passage of time and displaying the current time.

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Incongruous (adj): Out of step with its environment, jarring, inharmonious or nonconformist.

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Inky (n): Dark like ink, or resembling an ink stain.

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Clover (n): A herbaceous plant related to peas that produces flowers loved by bees and often grows among grass.

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Decumbent (adj): Lying on the ground

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Snapdragon (n): Popular name for plants of the genus Antirrhinum.

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Sustenance (n): Nourishment, the means to support life.

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Streak (n): A horizontal or vertical ray of light, a line or stroke, a conspicuous blot of colour on an area that is predominantly a different colour.

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