The Reign of Greed eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 419 pages of information about The Reign of Greed.
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The Reign of Greed eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 419 pages of information about The Reign of Greed.

novena: A devotion consisting of prayers recited for nine consecutive days, asking for some special favor; also, a booklet of these prayers.

panguingui: A complicated card-game, generally for small stakes, played with a monte deck.

panguinguera: A woman addicted to panguingui, this being chiefly a feminine diversion in the Philippines.

pansit: A soup made of Chinese vermicelli.

pansiteria: A shop where pansit is prepared and sold.

panuelo: A starched neckerchief folded stiffly over the shoulders, fastened in front and falling in a point behind:  the most distinctive portion of the customary dress of Filipino women.

peso: A silver coin, either the Spanish peso or the Mexican dollar, about the size of an American dollar and of approximately half its value.

petate: Sleeping-mat woven from palm leaves.

pina: Fine cloth made from pineapple-leaf fibers.

Provincial: The head of a religious order in the Philippines.

punales: “Daggers!”

querida: A paramour, mistress:  from the Spanish “beloved.”

real: One-eighth of a peso, twenty cuartos.

sala: The principal room in the more pretentious Philippine houses.

salakot: Wide hat of palm or bamboo, distinctively Filipino.

sampaguita: The Arabian jasmine:  a small, white, very fragrant flower, extensively cultivated, and worn in chaplets and rosaries by women and girls—­the typical Philippine flower.

sipa:  A game played with a hollow ball of plaited bamboo or rattan, by boys standing in a circle, who by kicking it with their heels endeavor to keep it from striking the ground.

soltada:  A bout between fighting-cocks.

’Susmariosep:  A common exclamation:  contraction of the Spanish, Jesus, Maria, y Jose, the Holy Family.

tabi:  The cry used by carriage drivers to warn pedestrians.

tabu:  A utensil fashioned from half of a coconut shell.

taju:  A thick beverage prepared from bean-meal and syrup.

tampipi:  A telescopic basket of woven palm, bamboo, or rattan.

Tandang:  A title of respect for an old man:  from the Tagalog term for “old.”

tapis:  A piece of dark cloth or lace, often richly worked or embroidered, worn at the waist somewhat in the fashion of an apron; a distinctive portion of the native women’s attire, especially among the Tagalogs.

tatakut:  The Tagalog term for “fear.”

teniente-mayor:  “Senior lieutenant,” the senior member of the town council and substitute for the gobernadorcillo.

tertiary sister:  A member of a lay society affiliated with a regular monastic order.

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