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ascetic 1. a person who practises great self-denial and austerities and abstains from worldly comforts and pleasures, esp for religious reasons 2. (in the early Christian Church) a monk How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Internally, spaces are ascetically detailed with pale stone floors and walls. Leila, in Arabic literature and folklore, is a prototype of female beauty and ascetically sought love based on the Arab romance of Qays wa Leila which Ahmad Shawqi, the Arab poet-laureate, transformed into a play in verse, the famous Mahnoun Leila (Leila's Mad Lover). The "built in" qualities that are beneficial to our clients in the areas of safety and comfort such as resistance to fire and sound propagation from one residential unit to another, ascetically the finished structure is very flat and virtually vibration free. |
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