Rooftops of Tehran Glossary

Rooftops of Tehran Glossary

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Galvanizing

Coating with a zinc layer

Plaintive

Woeful, forlorn

Catapulted

Launched, hurtled

Furtive

Slinking, indirect

Peripheral

Surrounding, outlying

Curtailed

Broke off, cut down

Trifling

Pathetic, fiddling

Fructifying

Making productive

Silhouette

Delineation, figure

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