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Koi
noun
Ornamental domesticated varieties of the common carp, Cyprinus carpio, of Japan and eastern Asia with red-gold or white coloring
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She lost a case for compensation and was thrown out of the couple's California mansion (where the koi carp were left to starve).
French tweets, like mobile text messages, are filled with abbreviations: koi for quoi (what) or C for c'est (it is).
An ardent fisherman, he still took delight in fishing-gear catalogues, his pool of koi and his favourite trout-spot, Mossy Creek, where tall weeds stood right by the water.
The Pacific Asia Museum contains exhibits on the history and arts of Asia and the Pacific; its grounds contain a Chinese courtyard garden and koi ponds.
Other hanafuda games include koi koi and kabu.
Among his best known works are the wood-block-print series "Fu ninsōgaku jittai" ("Ten Physiognomies of Women"), "Seirō jūni-toki" ("Twelve Hours at the Gay Quarters"), "Seirō nanakomachi" ("The Seven Beauties of the Gay Quarters"), and "Kasen koi no fu" ("Women in Love").
He is best remembered for several classic songs he wrote subsequently, notably "Waqt ne kiya kya haseen sitam" (Kaagaj ke Phool, 1959), "Dhire dhire machal" (Anupama, 1966), "Chalte chalte yun hi koi" (Pakeezah, 1971), and "Koi ye kaise bataye" (Arth, 1982).
How the local taxidermist must have loved stuffing Jerry's trophies, a complete cougar and a white mountain goat flanked by the heads of bison, elk and caribou staring out over a pool full of koi carp and a majestic carved eagle on the newel post.
The players and staff of Carlisle United found themselves snared by a disaster that in the weeks ahead would see swathes of northern Britain devastated by floods, a desperate episode that will forever be epitomised by photographs of the goalposts protruding from a submerged Brunton Park and koi carp swimming in the goalmouth.
Sitting in her daughter's opulent water garden – stocked with fat koi and tended by hired hands – she has come a long way from the struggle of her childhood.
Five tiers of beautiful blackish wooden pagoda, reflected in koi carp-filled waters.
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