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Eggplant papoutsaki. Eggplant papoutsaki ( Greek: μελιντζάνα παπουτσάκι) ( Turkish: Patlıcan pabucaki) [1] is an eggplant dish of the Greek cuisine and Turkish cuisine. Papoutsaki is a Greek word meaning, "little shoes." "Papuc" or "papuç" is a Persian word "pâpuš" (پاپوش) that is also used in Turkish and has the ...
Pappus (botany) In Asteraceae, the pappus is the modified calyx, [1] the part of an individual floret, that surrounds the base of the corolla tube in flower. It functions as a dispersal mechanism for the achenes that contain the seeds. In Asteraceae, the pappus may be composed of bristles (sometimes feathery), awns, scales, or may be absent ...
This is a comparison of English dictionaries, which are dictionaries about the language of English.The dictionaries listed here are categorized into "full-size" dictionaries (which extensively cover the language, and are targeted to native speakers), "collegiate" (which are smaller, and often contain other biographical or geographical information useful to college students), and "learner's ...
Veronica Franco, famous Venetian poet and courtesan. Portrait by Paolo Veronese. One type of courtesan was known (in Italy) as the cortigiana onesta, or the honest courtesan, who was cast as an intellectual. Another was the cortigiana di lume, a lower class of courtesan. The former was the sort most often romanticized and treated more-or-less ...
Language of flowers. Floriography ( language of flowers) is a means of cryptological communication through the use or arrangement of flowers. Meaning has been attributed to flowers for thousands of years, and some form of floriography has been practiced in traditional cultures throughout Europe, Asia, and Africa.
Hallelujah ( / ˌhæləˈluːjə / HAL-ə-LOO-yə; Biblical Hebrew: הַלְלוּ־יָהּ, romanized: hallū-Yāh, Modern Hebrew: הַלְּלוּ־יָהּ, romanized : halləlū-Yāh, lit. 'praise Yah ') is an interjection from the Hebrew language, used as an expression of gratitude to God. [1] [2] The term is used 24 times in the ...
The definition of sound, simplified, is a hearable noise. The tree will make a sound, even if nobody heard it, simply because it could have been heard. The answer to this question depends on the definition of sound. We can define sound as our perception of air vibrations. Therefore, sound does not exist if we do not hear it.
Chutzpah (Yiddish: חוצפה - / ˈ x ʊ t s p ə, ˈ h ʊ t-/) is the quality of audacity, for good or for bad.A close English equivalent is sometimes "hubris".The word derives from the Hebrew ḥuṣpāh (חֻצְפָּה), meaning "insolence", "cheek" or "audacity".