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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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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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Kook: A novice surfer who gets in the way† (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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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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He'd judged me by my novice sword and my size.† (source)
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When it came to buying a purebred dog, we were pure novices, but we had read enough to know to steer clear of the so-called puppy mills, those commercial breeding operations that churn out purebreds like Ford churns out Tauruses.† (source)
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To a novice, that incident would have gone by in a blur.† (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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But he's the practical clinician who has seen it all, and I'm still the emotionally invested 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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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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The novices moved to the wall, the competitive types rose immediately like sunflowers toward the noon sun.† (source)
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Feeling like the novice sous chef taking orders from Daniel Boulud, Langdon did as he was told, removing the pyramid from his bag and placing the gold capstone on top of it.† (source)
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Much of the coverage was left to complete novices on loan from other beats.† (source)
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