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'''Qiana'''<br />
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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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91 - Khat, or Qat, a tropical evergreen plant whose leaves are used as a stimulant
  
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'''quadrille paper'''<br />
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'''quants'''<br />
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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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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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'''Quight, Delwyn'''<br />
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'''Québéquois'''<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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181 accent of person taking the video;
  
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'''Quonset hut'''<br />
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'''Quigley, Axel'''<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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87, at John Street
  
  
 
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qat
91 - Khat, or Qat, a tropical evergreen plant whose leaves are used as a stimulant

quants
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
181 accent of person taking the video;

Quigley, Axel
87, at John Street


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