Pious deals with having or exhibiting a religious reverence.
Lentils I could not picture. They are, of course, round flattened seeds.
The only definition I could get for the name Cinderella is one who unexpectedly achieves recognition or success after a period of obscurity and neglect. They call her this because she lies in ashes.
Rook di goo. Your guess is as good as mine.
Terms like Dior, charwoman, Bonwitt Teller, and Bobbsey Twins had to be looked up to better understand what the author was referring to. They refer, of course, to Christian Dior clothing and style; a human female employed to do housework; a department store in New York; and a classic couple in children's literature; respectively.
The term curry favor refers to seeking favor by flattery.
All definitions looked up at thefreedictionary.com and Wikipedia.
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