For book club this month, I read Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale.The only word I didn’t recognize was:
Gher- a tent-like dwelling for a nomad in Central Asia.
You can see a great picture of one on Flickr.
Have you ever heard of a gher? What new words did you stumble across this week?
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