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wash

On-Yomi: セン — Kun-Yomi: あら.う

Koohii stories:

1) [AndamanIslander] 10-2-2008(286): In Japan, you always wash with water from the shower before you enter the bathtub.

2) [undershaft] 27-2-2007(80): You wash things with WATER to get them back to the clean state they were in BEFORE.

3) [stephjapan2004] 25-10-2007(41): WASH with WATER BEFORE doing anything.

4) [mcbainpc] 25-6-2008(29): You need water before you can wash.

5) [Melamelachan] 3-8-2007(16): In 1525, the city of Salzburg was occupied. Legend has it that there was nothing left to eat, except for one cow. To trick the occupying forces, people would paint the cow, and send a human (with human legs) and the cow out for a walk, clearly visible to the enemies. Then, they would use some water to wash the cow and paint it with a different colour and so on. Seeing there were still plenty of cows left, the occupiers finally gave up. The people of Salzburg are still called cow-washers.

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