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During the first month of apprenticeship, a young geisha is known as a "novice" and cannot perform dances or entertain on her own without her older sister, and in fact does little besides watching and learning. (source)novice = someone new to a field or activity
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But once Nina had taken him in hand, he realized what a novice he had been.† (source)
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He'd judged me by my novice sword and my size.† (source)
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It soon became clear that Mrs. Cole was no novice when it came to gin drinking.† (source)
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My song, the hovercraft, were too unfamiliar for this novice to pick up, but it has mastered her handful of notes.† (source)
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My daughter here will sketch on my behalf, though she is still a novice, and did indeed fracture her wrist some months ago.† (source)
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I was delivered to this mission deep in the jungle, where, amidst the careful neutrality of the sisters, a rumpled novice named Soeur Liselin might pass a few months unnoticed.† (source)
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These novices had never smoked anything before but cigars made of grape-vine, and they "bit" the tongue, and were not considered manly anyway.† (source)
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They say there's no teacher with such a desire for his subject as the novice possesses—and I taught those BSS girls to read and write their little middies off.† (source)
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Then Govinda broke loose, embraced once again his childhood friend and left with the novices.† (source)
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With special dispensation from the Vatican, she took her vows and entered a convent in Madras as a trainee novice.† (source)
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They moved slowly, laughed slowly, but flicked the ashes from their cigarettes too quickly, too often, and exposed themselves, to those who were interested, as novices to the habit.† (source)
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Those who came down it did so carefully, treading their way like novice ice-skaters—the only light was whatever passed through the windows of offices and from there through the translucent glass panels of doors.† (source)
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She had to give her rogue soldiers credit: They might not have been the most imaginative, they might have been novices in Black Imagination, but every single one of them had learned well how to kill.† (source)
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"A novice and a heretic," he said.† (source)
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Do you think you have to do with galley-slaves, or novices in the world?† (source)
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