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Here, me, Kelley and former Bolivia volunteer, Natalie, are sharing terere in the Plaza Uruguaya in Asunción.
Images. « Wanderings 2009
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But the Paraguayans have invented an ingenious hydration system: terere.
Images. « Wanderings 2009
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Noli nothis permittere te terere! on September 4, 2008 at 7: 23 pm | Reply Ex-RUC
Never Trust The Dog With Ginger Eyebrows « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008
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Just to belabor the point a bit, the word "detriment" comes from the Latin de - "away" + terere "to rub, wear," and has the connotation of impair or injure.
A Tetrahymena Puzzle 2008
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Digo: chiswenya Embu: rwoga English: amaranth, prostrate amaranth Giriama: logatsi Ilchamus: raprapa, lokuronit, lokuroniti Kamba: w'oa, woa, telele (Kitui), terere (north Kitui) Kikuyu: terere, terere wa gikuyu Kipsigis: kelichot
Chapter 7 1999
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Chonyi: chiswenya, English: amaranth, Chinese spinach, spiny amaranth, spleen amaranth Giriama: kiswenya Kamba: w'oa, terere (Mwingi), telele-nene Kambe: chiswenya Keiyo: chepkerte, chepkerta Kikuyu: terere Kipsigis: cheptokdogan
Chapter 7 1999
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Giriama: kiswenya-cha-miya Ilchamus: lkamasei Kikuyu: terere-wa-ng'ombe, terere wa kigombe Kipsigis: mborochet Luo: ododo Mbeere: macica Pokot: sikukuu, chepkuratian Samburu: nairepirepi Sanya: kiswenya-korati Turkana: lookwa, epespes the rest of the local names as for A. hybridus.
Chapter 7 1999
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There is an indelicate meaning in the expression "Buiam terere."
The Captiva and the Mostellaria Titus Maccius Plautus 1847
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"Boiam terere" may mean either "to have the prisoner's collar on," or, paraphrastically, "to be coupled with a Boian woman."
The Captiva and the Mostellaria Titus Maccius Plautus 1847
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I am sometimes disposed to think that this respectable young lady's name is a very old corruption for Tear-street -- street-walker, 'terere stratum
Literary Remains, Volume 2 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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