Red Dust Road Glossary

by Jackie Kay

Red Dust Road Glossary

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ornately

intricately; decoratively

burnished

polished

wee

a Scottish term for small

dervish

relating to a type of ritualistic dance

comatose

blacked out; unconscious

infiltration

secretly getting access to a place or a group of people

revelation

a dramatic revealing of information

kitschness

relating to something that is cheap or nasty

quaintness

old-fashionedness

apocryphal

false; made-up

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