concupiscence
(en)
(noun) strong desire / (noun) sexual desire
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It wasn’t his wife I envied most, sleepy in slacks, but his taciturn daughter. She was bored, taut, and concupiscent.
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1 year, 4 months ago
It wasn’t his wife I envied most, sleepy in slacks, but his taciturn daughter. She was bored, taut, and concupiscent.
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1 year, 4 months ago
scrim
(en)
(noun) a durable plain-woven usually cotton fabric for use in clothing, curtains, building, and industry / (noun) a theater drop that appears opaque when a scene in front is lighted and transparent or translucent when a scene in back is lighted / (noun) something likened to a theater scrim
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the sweet, woody smell of it mingled with that of his drugstore-brand dandruff shampoo and the Italian soap he used to hand-wash his lingerie, plus an underlying scrim of a thirty-seven-year-old dude—chopped garlic and decay
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1 year, 4 months ago
the sweet, woody smell of it mingled with that of his drugstore-brand dandruff shampoo and the Italian soap he used to hand-wash his lingerie, plus an underlying scrim of a thirty-seven-year-old dude—chopped garlic and decay
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1 year, 4 months ago
fey
(en)
(adjective) fated to die; doomed / (adjective) marked by a foreboding of death or calamity / (adjective) able to see into the future; visionary / (adjective) marked by an otherworldly air or attitude / (adjective) crazy touched / (adjective) excessively refined; precious / (adjective) quaintly unconventional; campy
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I nodded, feeling unexpectedly protective of Baby, this silly girl I’d created, so earnest and fey. OK …
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1 year, 4 months ago
I nodded, feeling unexpectedly protective of Baby, this silly girl I’d created, so earnest and fey. OK …
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1 year, 4 months ago