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Apadana
- noun - the great hall in ancient Persian palaces
Bandana
- noun - large and brightly colored handkerchief; often used as a neckerchief
Deodand
- - A personal chattel which had caused the death of a person, and for that reason was given to God, that is, forfeited to the crown, to be applied to pious uses, and distributed in alms by the high almoner. Thus, if a cart ran over a man and killed him, it was forfeited as a deodand.
Fondant
- noun - candy made of a thick creamy sugar paste
Gardant
- adjective - looking forward
Haldane
- noun - Scottish geneticist (son of John Haldane) who contributed to the development of population genetics; a popularizer of science and a Marxist (1892-1964)
- Scottish physiologist and brother of Richard Haldane and Elizabeth Haldane; noted for research into industrial diseases (1860-1936)
- Scottish statesman and brother of Elizabeth and John Haldane (1856-1928)
- Scottish writer and sister of Richard Haldane and John Haldane (1862-1937)
Jamdani
- - A silk fabric, with a woven pattern of sprigs of flowers.
Lindane
- noun - a white crystalline powder used as an agricultural insecticide
Mordant
- adjective - A musical ornament
- a substance used to treat leather or other materials before dyeing; aids in dyeing process
- harshly ironic or sinister; "black humor"; "a grim joke"; "grim laughter"; "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit"
- of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action
Mundane
- adjective - belonging to this earth or world; not ideal or heavenly; "not a fairy palace; yet a mundane wonder of unimagined kind"; "so terrene a being as himself"
- concerned with the world or worldly matters; "mundane affairs"; "he developed an immense terrestrial practicality"
- found in the ordinary course of events; "a placid everyday scene"; "it was a routine day"; "there's nothing quite like a real...train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute"- Anita Diamant
- Ordinary