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vernacular  

It was while she was at the college of architecture that she met Larry McCaslin, who was in Delhi collecting material for his doctoral thesis on "Energy Efficiency in Vernacular Architecture"- Arundhati Roy, "The God of Small Things"

erstwhile  

I was born into a middle-class Tamil family in the island town of Rameswaram in the erstwhile Madras state. A P J Abdul Kalam, "Wings of Fire: an autobiography"

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