miglior fabbro (it)

Italian for "the better craftsman"; from the dedication to Ezra Pound in T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land; itself a quote from Dante's Divine Comedy

pabulum (en)

bland or insipid intellectual fare, entertainment, etc.; pap

rubicund (en)

(adj, especially of someone's face) having a ruddy complexion; high-colored

ukase (en)

an edict of the Russian government OR an arbitrary command