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cowdust hour

cowdust hour
 n.— «Far away a faint roar signaled the mounting confusion of Delhi’s rush hour—the “cowdust hour” with its pungent odor of thousands of fires kindled in preparation for the evening meal.» —by Elwyn M. Chamberlain Gates of Fire , 1978. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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