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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
joss
 
PRONUNCIATION:  js
NOUN: A Chinese image in a shrine.
ETYMOLOGY:Pidgin English, from Javanese deyos, from Portuguese deos, god, from Latin deus. See dyeu- in Appendix I.
 
 
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  Josquin Desprez joss house  
 
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