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On-Yomi: タイ、テイ — Kun-Yomi: とどこお.る

Koohii stories:

1) [ihatobu] 1-12-2008(246): History of the first karate blackbelts: In those days, it was often difficult to find fresh, clean water, so samurai usually had to wash their sashes in stagnant puddles. The longer one had been studying martial arts, the older the sash on one's karate uniform and, therefore, the darker the color. So why weren't their karate uniforms black too? Never seen a ninja????

2) [jwy2k2] 20-3-2007(72): A moat is a stagnate ring of water like an obi (sash) of water tied around the castle.

3) [stringy_cow] 1-1-2009(46): WATER that is "tied up" as if with a SASH and unable to flow properly will become stagnate.

4) [tomtosh] 20-12-2007(46): This is one I keep missing, and always because of the right-hand side. I can easily associate stagnate with water but never with sash. And so I will now try to associate stagnate with something around the house that often stagnates and smells awful: the kitchen washrag. From washrag, I will make the association with sash.

5) [nesert] 14-10-2009(41): The water became stagnate because the drain was clogged with a sash.

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