dappled
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(adjective) marked with small spots or patches contrasting with the background
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coeval
(en)
(adjective) of the same or equal age, antiquity, or duration
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John turns his camera on the Hoel Chestnut, his exact coeval
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John turns his camera on the Hoel Chestnut, his exact coeval
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calico
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(noun) cotton cloth imported from India / (noun) a plain white cotton fabric that is heavier than muslin / (noun) any of various cheap cotton fabrics with figured patterns / (noun) a blotched or spotted animal / (noun) one that is predominantly white with red and black patches / (noun) black crappie / (noun) mountain laurel
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He photographs his wife in calico and a crumpled smile, poised over the new mechanical clothes mangle
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He photographs his wife in calico and a crumpled smile, poised over the new mechanical clothes mangle
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lassitude
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(noun) a condition of weariness or debility; fatigue / (noun) a condition of listlessness; languor
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The shared lassitude of casting, the C of the line as it lengthens in the air, that four-stroke swelling rhythm with the stiff hand stopping at ten and two, the ripple of the dry fly as it alights on the water
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The shared lassitude of casting, the C of the line as it lengthens in the air, that four-stroke swelling rhythm with the stiff hand stopping at ten and two, the ripple of the dry fly as it alights on the water
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liturgy
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(noun) a eucharistic rite / (noun) a rite or body of rites prescribed for public worship / (noun) a customary repertoire of ideas, phrases, or observances / (noun) the eucharistic rite of Eastern churches
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They hold a silent liturgy of memory and shock
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They hold a silent liturgy of memory and shock
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truculent
(en)
eager or quick to argue or fight; aggressively defiant
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Around lights-out, Prisoner 1037 gets a little truculent at the overdone theatrics
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Around lights-out, Prisoner 1037 gets a little truculent at the overdone theatrics
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involuted
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complicated; abstruse; curled inwards
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a pollen-coated wasp crawled down the hole at the tip of a certain green fig and laid eggs all over the involute garden of flowers hidden inside
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a pollen-coated wasp crawled down the hole at the tip of a certain green fig and laid eggs all over the involute garden of flowers hidden inside
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cantilever
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(noun) ; a projecting beam or member supported at only one end / a bracket-shaped member supporting a balcony or a cornice / either of the two beams or trusses that project from piers toward each other and that when joined directly or by a suspended connecting member form a span of a cantilever bridge
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From high up in this crazy cantilevered oak, looking down on the sidewalk
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From high up in this crazy cantilevered oak, looking down on the sidewalk
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copse
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(noun) a small group of trees, coppice, thicket
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He drives them to a copse of spared hardwoods in the bottoms of a slow stream.
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He drives them to a copse of spared hardwoods in the bottoms of a slow stream.
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logy
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(adjective) sluggish groggy / (noun combining form) oral or written expression / (noun combining form) doctrine; theory; science
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A duet ensues: the bright, pert, human come-on, followed by the logy but obliging bird, hidden in the trees.
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A duet ensues: the bright, pert, human come-on, followed by the logy but obliging bird, hidden in the trees.
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