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To get there we went through narrow streets lined with a bustling market, women in head scarves turning large walnuts in a round metal pot with salt to increase the flavor, sticky rice sold from push carts, leeche nuts, dates, pyramids of ripe fruit, and all sorts of kites made a pattern of beautiful colors.
Madeleine M. Kunin: China Journal, May 16, 2009: Terra-Cotta Soldiers, Islam, and Pollution 2009
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And turnd hys horses hedde, and did to leeche repayre.
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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Ord. _ p. 437.] [Footnote 111: A.S. _roppas_, the bowels.] [Footnote 112: “leeche” is a slice or strip, _H.
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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