distaff
(en)
(noun) a staff for holding the flax, tow, or wool in spinning OR relating to women
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Women were spinsters before the word became pejorative, when distaff meant the female side of the family.
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Women were spinsters before the word became pejorative, when distaff meant the female side of the family.
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aegis
(en)
(noun, Greek mythology) protective mantle of Zeus given to Athena
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everything had gone well under her aegis
basically "shield"
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everything had gone well under her aegis
basically "shield"
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penury
(en)
(noun) a cramping and oppressive lack of resources (as money) / (noun) severe poverty / (noun) extreme and often niggardly frugality
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Luxuries and fine goods had been scarce in Iceland's penurious past
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Luxuries and fine goods had been scarce in Iceland's penurious past
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sundered
(en)
(verb) to break apart or in two; separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space / (verb) to become parted, disunited, or severed
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The words on that sutured, sundered book of leaves
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The words on that sutured, sundered book of leaves
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extirpate
(en)
(verb) to destroy completely; wipe out / (verb) to pull up by the root / (verb) to cut out by surgery
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rather than extirpating the external causes of pain
on Buddhism
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rather than extirpating the external causes of pain
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campesino
(es)
A tenant farmer or farm worker in Latin America
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an old campesino called me over
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an old campesino called me over
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ebullience
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(noun) the quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts or feelings; exuberance
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It was me on the edges and an ebullient monster in the middle
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It was me on the edges and an ebullient monster in the middle
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penury
(en)
(noun) a cramping and oppressive lack of resources (as money) / (noun) severe poverty / (noun) extreme and often niggardly frugality
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But it was wordless and so had the penurious privilege of visual art, of being able to invoke many meanings without being pinned down by the specificities of words.
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But it was wordless and so had the penurious privilege of visual art, of being able to invoke many meanings without being pinned down by the specificities of words.
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panoply
(en)
(noun) a complete or impressive collection of things; (historically) a complete set of arms or suit of armor
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