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propitiate
I propitiated the knife-wielding deities with presents of books.
Referring to her surgeons
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animalcule
Dutchmen looking through the first microscopes were discovering the world of animalcules
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appurtenances
domestic scenes with the appurtenances of still life
used like "accessories" here
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vanitas painting
The still life with lobster by Abraham van Beyeren is supposed to be a vanitas painting because of the pocket watch
defined as "about the futility of human cravings, aspirations, and attachments in the face of the transience of all things"
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