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tangi

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1. a Maori funeral ceremony
2. Informal a lamentation
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15.871, 878-9) hos quoque sex versus, in prima fronte libelli si praeponendos esse putabis, babe: 'orba parente suo quicumque volumina tangis, his saltem vestra detur in urbe locus.
Tu rem acu tangis et dialectico lumine, verum a falso secernis!
Examples of such sentences include "Able was I ere I saw Elba" and "Lewd did I live & evil I did dwel." Examples of palindromic verse include (in Latin) "Roma tibi subito motibus ibit amor" and "Signa te, signa temere me tangis et angis." Some writers have refined the palindrome, composing verses in which each word reads the same backward and forward--for instance, that of William Camden:
They were brought to Sitio Tangis of the same village for a dialogue with communist rebels supposedly led by an alias Joey.
Tangi's Salon in West Chester, Ohio, (www.tangissalon.com) is a 5-star, four-time Spectrum Award winner.