The Old Curiosity Shop Glossary

by Charles Dickens

The Old Curiosity Shop Glossary

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tarpaulin

a waterproof piece of cloth

purport

claim

receptacles

basins

querulousness

the trait of complaining always

abstraction

concept

incapacitated

indisposed

perceptible

noticeable

conviviality

friendliness

ostentatiously

pretentiously

incontrovertible

indisputable

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