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gab
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gab
informal
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verb
they were all gabbing away like crazy
synonyms
: chatter, chitter-chatter, chat, talk, gossip, gabble, babble, prattle, jabber, blather, blab;
informal
yak, yackety-yak, yabber, yatter, yammer, blabber, blah-blah, jaw, gas, mouth off, natter, run off at the mouth.
phrase:
the gift of (the) gab
Reverend Lilly was a charming young man blessed with the gift of gab
synonyms
: eloquence, fluency, expressiveness, a silver tongue; persuasiveness;
informal
a way with words, blarney.
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Yoritomo's Death: A Shin Kabuki Play by Mayama Seika.(text and commentary)(Play)
Magazine article from: Asian Theatre Journal
; ...of the actors for whom he was writing Yoritomo's Death focuses on the efforts of the...the great general and first shogun Yoritomo, met his death. We the audience know...the parts in his plays were designed. Yoritomo's Death (Yoritomo no Shi) comes into...
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Forward to victory.(japanese history)
Magazine article from: Calliope
; When Minamoto Yoritomo received Prince Mochihito's call for...more than 20 years had passed since Yoritomo's father had attempted to wrest control...which the failed revolt is known--Yoritomo's father and his two older brothers...
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OBITUARIES & MEMORIALS.(News)
Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
; ...St. Interment Hampden Memorial Gardens. YORITOMO, KENT T. -On July 12, 2004 Kent Toshio Yoritomo of Towson, MD, formerly of Denver, CO, beloved husband of the late Chiyoko Maruyama Yoritomo and beloved father of Nadine Yoritomo and...
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The Kamakura shogunate.
Magazine article from: Calliope
; The regime that Minamoto Yoritomo established--the Kamakura shogunate...The eastern warriors who answered Yoritomo's call to arms in 1180 came to him...their limited political influence. Yoritomo exploited those frustrations to build...
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Fall seven times stand up eight.(medieval Japan)(Brief article)
Magazine article from: Calliope
; ...1159 Taira Kiyomori defeats Minamoto Yoritomo's father--Heiji Incident. 1185...victory of Minamoto over Taira. Minamoto Yoritomo appoints warriors as jito, or land stewards...1192 Imperial court confers on Minamoto Yoritomo title of sei'i taishogun (English...
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Avatars of Vengeance: Japanese Drama and the Soga Literary Tradition.(Review)
Magazine article from: Asian Folklore Studies
; ...vendetta against the Shogun, Minamoto Yoritomo, who had ordered the execution of their...Juro was killed in an attack on one of Yoritomo's deputies and Goro was captured soon after entering Yoritomo's camp. Yet as Kominz shows, the...
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KAMAKURA: WHERE ANCIENT MEETS THE MODERN
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News
; ...by train. Kamakura became a center of Japan when Minamoto Yoritomo opened his government in 1192, when many temples and shrines...Shrine, which originated in the year 1063. However, Minamoto Yoritomo, the first shogun of Kamakura government, added onto the...
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Antiquity and Anachronism in Japanese History.
Magazine article from: The Historian
; ...the third Kamakura Shogun, Sanetono, not with the founder, Yoritomo. The third contribution of the book is contained in an interpretive...include "The Mixing of Past and Present" (on anachronism), "Yoritomo and Feudalism," "Identity, Personal Names, and Kamakura...
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Long-ago days: what was it like to live in ancient Japan?
Magazine article from: Appleseeds
; ...laws. Then, about 800 years ago, a powerful samurai warrior named Yoritomo defeated the emperor's army in battle. (Find out more about samurais on pages 10-12.) Yoritomo was a shogun, one of the warlords who then ruled Japan. Through...
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Hot Times in Old Edo
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...around him, perhaps because he's more interested in his male lover, Yoritomo, and in the other male concubines he keeps in his palace. To further complicate matters, Yoritomo's father, who was previously chamberlain to the shogun but was forced...
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