"Kalunay" is a word in ILOKANO, HILIGAYNON
n, a spiny herb (Amaranthus spinosus) with long petioled leaves.
kalúnay - Softness, compressibility,
impressionableness, impressibility,
plasticity, pliability; tenderness. (cf. lúnay).
And perhaps it was precisely because she knew nothing at all about chess that chess for her was not simply a parlor game or a pleasant pastime, but a mysterious art equal to all the recognized arts. She had never been in close contact with such people — there was no one to compare him with except those inspired eccentrics, musicians and poets whose image one knows as clearly and as vaguely as that of a Roman Emperor, an inquisitor or a comedy miser. Her memory contained a modest dimly lit gallery with a sequence of all the people who had in any way caught her fancy.
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