nao
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The list of toppings starts with khao soi pork, bringing all the richness and complexity of the version made in Laos, including the fermented soybean paste tua nao.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 15, 2024
At the San Marino class, Chuang wrote dian nao on the board.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2023
Dian is electricity and nao is brain — put together, they mean “computer.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2023
Quem nao tem visto Lisboa, noa tem know what beauty is.*
From Time Magazine Archive
The world's ultimate pragmatist just shrugs and says: "NhUng gi minh mong it khi nao no jcay ra. Nhung gi minh khong muon thi no lai cti den."
From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan
Team historians were particularly intrigued by black granite pieces from a Menouthis naos, or shrine, on which hieroglyphics revealed the roots of classical astrology.
From Time Magazine Archive
After this rapid glance at the aspect of the landscape, let us return to the cangia with its fifty rowers, and, without announcing ourselves, enter boldly into the naos of honor.
From One of Cleopatra's Nights and Other Fantastic Romances One of Cleopatra's Nights?Clarimonde?Arria Marcella?The Mummy's Foot?Omphale: a Rococo Story?King Candaules by Th?ophile Gautier
CELLA, in architecture, the Latin name for the sanctuary of a Roman temple, corresponding with the naos of the Greek temple.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various
No. 571, like the Barcelona MS., has: "y las naos de alli se enpeguen el dicho yncenso el qual le vale alli de ciento cinquenta mrs el quintal."
From A Description of the Coasts of East Africa and Malabar in the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century by Duarte Barbosa
The cella or naos was built to enshrine the chryselephantine statue of Athena by Pheidias.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" by Various
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