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  • Noble – good
  • Craven – weak, cowardly
  • Bosom – chest, heart
  • Lint – soft material for dressing wounds
  • Stint – limit, set limits to, bring to an end
  • Luster – dazzling, splendid, radiant
  • Calico – plain-woven cotton cloth
  • Shoddy – of poor quality
  • Brooches – broach; clasp or ornament having a pin at the back for passing through the clothing and a catch for securing the point of the pin
  • 'Broidery – embroidery
  • Divine – good