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Qiana is a silky nylon fiber first developed by DuPont in 1968. Initially intended for high-end fashions, it became a popular material in the 1970s for faux-silk, men's shirts, displaying bold patterns. The shirts were generally cut tight and included wide collars to fit over the collars of the double-knit suit coats which were worn popularly to discos; 237
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62; Pynchon is known to frequently, if not always, write his correspondence on quadrille paper. The known examples that have floated into view have all been written on this paper, either green or yellow.
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'''qat'''<br />
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91 - Khat, or Qat, a tropical evergreen plant whose leaves are used as a stimulant
  
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'''Quight, Delwyn'''<br />
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219; antiques dealer in Las Vegas, from whom Puck and Einar rented a flat upstairs; 263
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48 - A quantitative analyst is a person who works in finance using numerical or quantitative techniques. Similar work is done in most other modern industries, but the work is not always called quantitative analysis. In the investment industry, people who perform quantitative analysis are frequently called quants.
  
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'''Quonset hut'''<br />
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181; Prefabricated metal building with a semicircular cross section. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quonset_hut Wikipedia]
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183 accent of person taking the video;
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'''Quigley, Axel'''<br />
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87, at John Street
  
  
 
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91 - Khat, or Qat, a tropical evergreen plant whose leaves are used as a stimulant

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48 - A quantitative analyst is a person who works in finance using numerical or quantitative techniques. Similar work is done in most other modern industries, but the work is not always called quantitative analysis. In the investment industry, people who perform quantitative analysis are frequently called quants.

Québéquois
183 accent of person taking the video;

Quigley, Axel
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