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'''Vocabulary in Billy Budd''', the [[novella]] by [[Herman Melville]] (published posthumously), includes the following:

== Chapter 1 ==
*man-of-war (also man-o'-war, or sometimes just "man") - a powerful warship (or frigate) in 1500-1800 in Europe
*Ham - the second son of Noah, in the Book of Genesis, the father of Cush, Mizraim, Phut and Canaan.
*vainglorious - boastful
*tartan - patterned cloth with overlapping horizontal and vertical colored bands associated with a clan, from the Scottish Highlands
*pagod - charred or burnt ("black pagod of a fellow," referring to a particular black sailor)
*Anacharsis Cloots, nicknamed a "citizen of humanity" and "a personal enemy of God," he was an anarchist who advocated for world parliament as a leading figure of the French Revolution, though himself a Prussian nobleman
*retinue - an entourage or group that accompanies someone important
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