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Date:Thu, 10 May 2001 21:02:37 -0700 (PDT)

pariah (puh-RI-uh) noun

An outcast.

[From Tamil paraiyar, plural of paraiyan, drummer, people considered lower in
rank in the former caste-system of India.]

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