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Peculiar
- adjective - (Eng. Canon Law) A particular parish or church which is exempt from the jurisdiction of the see within which it resides.
- beyond or deviating from the usual or expected; "a curious hybrid accent"; "her speech has a funny twang"; "they have some funny ideas about war"; "had an odd name"; "the peculiar aromatic odor of cloves"; "something definitely queer about this town"; "what a rum fellow"; "singular behavior"
- characteristic of one only; distinctive or special; "the peculiar character of the Government of the U.S."- R.B.Taney
- markedly different from the usual; "a peculiar hobby of stuffing and mounting bats"; "a man...feels it a peculiar insult to be taunted with cowardice by a woman"-Virginia Woolf
- unique or specific to a person or thing or category; "the particular demands of the job"; "has a particular preference for Chinese art"; "a peculiar bond of sympathy between them"; "an expression peculiar to Canadians"; "rights peculiar to the rich"; "t
Peculium
- - The saving of a son or a slave with the father's or master's consent; a little property or stock of one's own; any exclusive personal or separate property.
Picadors
- noun - the horseman who pricks the bull with a lance early in the bullfight to goad the bull and to make it keep its head low
Picardie
- noun - a region of northern France on the English Channel
Picariae
- noun - term used in some classifications as nearly equivalent to the order Coraciiformes
Picarian
- - Of or pertaining to Picari -- n. One of the Picari
Picaroon
- - One who plunders; especially, a plunderer of wrecks; a pirate; a corsair; a marauder; a sharper.
Picayune
- adjective - (informal) small and of little importance; "a fiddling sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "a dispute over niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts"; "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction"