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Old October 18th, 2020, 03:40 AM
nancygoat
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Default [Dixonary] Rbd 3112 PALLADIUM - Vote

I'll take 7 and 11.

Nancy

On Saturday, October 17, 2020 at 5:36:52 AM UTC-5 johnb (AT) john-barrs (DOT) co.uk
wrote:

> Dear Friends
>
> As one grows older everything takes more time and the results are less
> accurate - so firstly, I am sorry I am late and secondly I hope I included
> all the defs
>
> Here are 14 defs for PALLADIUM please vote for 2 of them or declare
> yourself a DQ if you now know it (but don't look it up until after you have
> voted)
>
> Vote Deadline: 10:00 BST Monday morning
>
> *JohnnyB*
>
> 1 a temple to Pallas Athena, then (under the
> Romans) to Minerva
>
> 2 (also hippodrome) a Roman arena used for
> dramatic and other performances, such as the one restored at Caesarea
>
> 3 Brit. a vaudeville theater
>
> 4 the calm weather that may precede a storm
>
> 5 an ornate sacramental table used in temples
> to hold offerings to a deity, often for the purpose of ritual blessing
>
> 6 the flattened tip of a hypha in various
> species of parasitic fungi from which a filament emerges that penetrates
> the host's tissues
>
> 7 a thing on which the safety of a nation,
> institution, privilege, etc., is believed to depend; a source of
> protection, a safeguard
>
> 8 an entranceway to a theatre
>
> 9 a commemorative arch, often stand-alone
>
> 10 the place from which a jury is drawn and in
> which trial is held
>
> 11 in Roman times, a room for entertaining
> guests
>
> 12 a piece of land containing a sacred grove of
> trees
>
> 13 a toga bordered in purple, worn by Roman senators during
> the time of the Caesars. The dye used, know as Tyrean purple, was made from
> the crushed shells of certain sea snails, and was quite rare and expensive.
> Julius Caesar was reputed to have worn a toga dyed entirely in purple,
> whence the term "royal purple"
>
> 14 a dam constructed of concrete and/or masonry
> on the outside but having a hollow interior filled with unshaped or
> uncoursed stones or rubble
>
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