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Dahl
British writer. A fighter pilot during World War II, he began his writing career when C. S. Forester encouraged him to write about his combat adventures, which were published by the Saturday Evening Post. The short-story collection Someone Like You (1953) was a best-seller; his later stories, many published in the New Yorker, often include bizarre or supernatural elements. His popular children's books James and the Giant Peach (1961) and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964) were made into films.
fable
Narration intended to enforce a useful truth, especially one in which animals or inanimate objects speak and act like human beings. Unlike a folktale, it has a moral that is woven into the story and often explicitly formulated at the end. The Western fable tradition began with tales ascribed to Aesop. It flourished in the Middle Ages, reached a high point in 17th-cent. France in the works of J. de La Fontaine, and found a new audience in the 19th cent. with the rise of children's literature. Fables also have ancient roots in the literary and religious traditions of India, China, and Japan.
gable
Triangular section formed by a roof with two slopes, extending from the eaves to the ridge where the two slopes meet. It may be miniaturized over a dormer window or entranceway. If the gable end projects above the roof level to form a parapet, the edge is often trimmed to form an ornamental silhouette (e.g., curved or stepped), as in Dutch town houses of the 16th-17th cent. In Asia, gables often feature projecting roof tiles and grotesque sculptures of animals at the ridge and eaves.
sable
Carnivore (Martes zibellina, family Mustelidae) that inhabits forests of N Asia and is highly valued for its fur. The name is sometimes applied to related European and Asian species and to the Amer. marten. The sable is 13-20 in. (32-51 cm) long, excluding the 5-7-in. (13-18-cm) tail, and weighs 2-4 lbs (0.9-1.8 kg). The coat varies from brown to almost black. The solitary, arboreal sable eats small animals and eggs.
tabla
Pair of small drums, the principal percussion in the chamber music of N India. The higher-pitched dahina is a roughly cylindrical one-skinned drum, usually wooden, normally tuned to the raga's tonic. The bahina is a deep kettledrum usually of copper; its pitch varies with pressure from the heel of the player's hand. A disk of black tuning paste on the membrane of each drum gives it harmonic overtones.
table
Article of furniture used in the Western world since at least the 7th cent. BC, consisting of a flat slab of stone, metal, wood, or glass supported by trestles, legs, or a pillar. Though tables were used in ancient Egypt, Assyria, and Greece, only during the Middle Ages, with the growing formality of life under feudalism, did tables increasingly take on social significance. Tables with attached legs appeared in the 15th cent. The ...
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