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Tiffin

41º1N 83º2W, pop (2000e) 18 100. Seat of Seneca Co, NW Ohio, USA; on the Sandusky R; first settled as Oakley village (1817), renamed Fort Ball, and finally Tiffin (1822); birthplace of Oliver Baker and George Cressey; severely damaged by floods (1913); railway; many parks.

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Tiffin is an Indian and British term for a light meal eaten during the day.

Not so long ago, in India, the word was mostly used for light lunches prepared for working Indian men by their wives after they have left for work, and forwarded to them by Dabbawalas who use a complex system to get thousands of tiffin-boxes to their destinations.

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