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habit (often a bad habit, i.e. vice); tendency; peculiarity; idiosyncrasy; crease; wrinkle

2

custom; general rule; convention; usually; generally; as a rule

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for (e.g. "she dances well for an eight-year old"); considering it's (something or someone)

3

willingly; voluntarily; on one's own accord

4

immediately; at once; instantly

3

in haste

1

(not) anything; (nothing) at all; and everything else; and all; (not) at all; (not) in the least

6

marriage of convenience; marriage for political reasons

1

I'm off; see you later; to go (and then come back)

3

to reconsider; to rethink; to reassess

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to marry (of a woman); to become a bride; to marry into (a family); (arch.) to have sexual intercourse

2

to be thoroughly attracted by; to be completely fascinated by

2

restless; fidgety; fussy

1

to explain clearly; to give detailed instructions

1

day and night; turning night into day

1

splendid; magnificent; gorgeous

1

marriage; wedding

1

box; case; car (of a train, etc.); shamisen case; shamisen; public building; community building

1

tool; implement; means; furniture

1

elaborated cloth; figured silk and thin silk

1

coach (horse-drawn); carriage; wagon; cart

2

cone (e.g. pine, hemlock)

1

beautiful

1

thin-culmed dwarf bamboo (growing in clusters); Japanese transverse bamboo flute (high-pitched; usu. with seven holes); sliver (strand of loose fibers)

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classical studies

1

to stay up all night; to spend the night without sleep

1

celebratory banquet; feast

1

white horse; unrefined sake

1

fine dress; dressing beautifully

1

shelf; ledge; rack; trellis

2

to send out; to forward; to show (a person) out

1

worst; poor and boring; uncool

8

advanced age; senility

1

illness; disease; bad habit; weakness; fault

2

bustling; busy; crowded; lively (party, voices, etc.); loud; noisy

1

sickroom; hospital room; ward

4

maid; handmaid

1

retirement (from work); leading a quiet life (after retirement); retired person; retiree; surrendering headship of the family (pre-WWII)

1

line; queue; procession; matrix

2

people

1

to walk; to go on foot; to tread (a figurative path); to follow; to advance towards (e.g. a solution); to set out (e.g. on the path to destruction, ruin, etc.)

1

donkey

2

to gasp for air; to pant; to be out of breath

1

congratulation; congratulations; celebration; congratulatory gift; present

1

contrary; opposite; inverse; reverse; back-to-front

2

to shake one's head (in denial)

1

deathbed; dying hour; one's death

1

futures; credit (buying); stretching; total (preceding counter, unit, etc.); aggregate

1

infirmities of old age

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before; previously; ahead; Pardon me for leaving (before you)

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