joss

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He was worshiping this joss, as he calls Clara's little jade god.

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  1. noun A Chinese image in a shrine.

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  • Blare in the green, insect, under the surrounding of flower and grass joss-stick, letting what you realize BE: What is a green life. —  TravelPod.com Recent Updates
  • Well, the kids had a fun time burning up all the spare joss-sticks and stick them around the parameters of the grave to smoke the mosquitoes away. —  The Obnoxious 5xmom
  • Cue the heady fug of joss-sticks and the sound of whalesong - in this at —  The Register
  • Placing a joss-stick in a bowl on Ami's tomb, Sinh says sadly:
  • The money will be used to buy joss-sticks and other offerings on the first and fifteenth days of each lunar month.
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  1. Pidgin English, from Javanese deyos, from Portuguese deos, god, from Latin deus; see dyeu- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Pidgin-English corruption of Portuguese deos, God: see deity.
 

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/Jɑs/
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