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hayfield
A field of hay
busts
A sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders
tonsures
A ritual shaving of this kind
payed
Misspelling of paid
prabang
As a 32 year old Ghanaian woman living in Luang Prabang and studying as an.
berkeleydb
The storage backends are pluggable, but most commonly used ones are BerkeleyDB and read-only (for.
tham
A surname
stylites
An epithet of several saints revered as stylites
newsweek
An American weekly news magazine
ashen-faced
Having a pallor (pale face) due to fear or a similar emotion
reacts
To act in response
blue-collar
A blue-collar worker
propertyless
Without property—things owned
low-class
Lacking social rank or respectability
working-class
Of or pertaining to the working class