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Vait! 'said Alex,' Aind you choing to gif a man a jance to puy some choots? '
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I have a dark side player advise for on taris if you buy the droid at droids at jance for 50 credits as soon as you walk out of the store he will blow up, go back to jance and say that it was a piece of junk annd you want your credits back.
IGN Complete 2010
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When he defcends to particulars, he betrays more igno - jance concerning the motions and magnitudes of the heavenly bodies, than many of his predecefTors.
The Monthly Review 1786
chained_bear commented on the word jance
"Because spices were for the most part hot and dry, they were especially appropriate for beef, goose, crane, brains, tongue, and other humorally cold meats. These required vigorously spiced sauces like cameline to temper them, whereas chicken, considered nearer to humorally neutral, needed only the milder jance sauce. Jance is also the appropriate accompaniment for fried fish, but boiled fish (which retains an essentially moist and cold character) should really be accompanied by cameline or perhaps a green sauce. Eels, and lamprey especially, get special treatment."
Paul Freedman, Out of the East: Spices and the Medieval Imagination (New Haven and London: Yale UP, 2008), 55-56
November 27, 2017