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annex
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Memoirs of a Geisha
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- I may as well tell you, if you don't know it already, that as a young lieutenant in the Japanese marines, Nobu had been severely injured in a bombing outside Seoul in 1910, at the time Korea was being annexed to Japan.
p. 199.5 *annexed = taken and attached
- I knew nothing about kimono except how to wear them, so I was given the task of spending my days in the basement of the workshop annex, tending to the vats of dye as they boiled.
p. 350.3 *annex = an addition that extends a main building
- Every few nights during the course of several weeks, I sneaked into the annex to let him in.†
p. 350.7
- One bitter cold afternoon in November, three years after the end of the war, I was warming my hands over the dye vats in the annex when Mrs. Arashino came down to say that someone wished to see me.†
p. 352.1
- Since coming up from the annex, I'd kept my hands hidden as best I could.†
p. 355.2
- That very night while the Arashinos slept, I wrote to Mother by the light of the tadon burning under the dye vats in the annex.†
p. 357.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(annex as in: annexed the community) to take territory and make it part of a larger territory -- such as a city making land outside of it a part of the city
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(2)
(annex as in: annex of the main building) an addition that extends a main building
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to attach something -- especially to something larger or more important - (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)