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A building called the Catademnon (pungent gust of ancient Greek syllables!) is certainly not merely a confection, reminding us as it does of condemn, Agamenmon, and Parthenon, all of which relate directly to Vance's hero Emphyrio and his tragic fate.
One particular wine was described as “sweet, a bubbly, flowery, light fizzy feeling in the mouth” by one subject, “quite dry, quite tangy” by another, and “harsh odor, pungent, unpleasant, bitter, sharp” by a third.
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If chatting is friendly and informal, it must also be brief and pungent.
Roucouyennes (Caribs) rubbed their dogs with Hibiscus abelmoschus with the expectation that its pungent smell would prevent jaguars from biting their dogs [ 21 ] . Tukanoan tribes in South America also believed that deer had an inoffensive body odour that was linked to their diet of "pure" foods such as fresh sprouts, young green leaves and sweet fruits [ 31 ] . Tukanoan tribes also believed that people and animals have smells related to the food that they eat and the environment that they lived in [ 31 ] . This association of animal smells with their environment is perhaps what the informant was referring to in his reference to an agouti and the smell of its Piper marginatum "bed".
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