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Rhabdomancy
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| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
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rhabdomancy
1646, "use of divining rod" (especially to discover ores or underground water), from Gk. rhabdos "rod, twig, stick" + manteia "divination, oracle." Gk. rhabdos is from PIE *werbh- (cf. Lith. virbas "twig, branch, scion, rod," L. verbena "leaves and branches of laurel"), from base *werb- "to turn, bend"
EXPAND(see warp).
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