Rustic+or+provincial+dialect

  • 31Western architecture — Introduction       history of Western architecture from prehistoric Mediterranean cultures to the present.       The history of Western architecture is marked by a series of new solutions to structural problems. During the period from the… …

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  • 32Teochew string music — A Chaozhou tihu Teochew sring music or Chaozhou xianshi (Chinese: 潮州弦诗; literally Chaozhou string poem also called string poem music ) is classed as a type of sizhu music (chamber music for strings and woodwind, literally silk/bamboo ) although… …

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  • 33patois —    (pah TWAH) [French: clumsy speech] A local or rustic dialect, especially in France, that differs noticeably from the standard language; a provincial form of speech; jargon.    a theater troupe that performs in the original Macanese patois, an… …

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