Example: "Mainly architectural, the beauties of Oxford. True, the place is no longer one-sexed. There are the virguncules of Somerville and Lady Margaret's Hall; but beauty and the lust for learning have yet to be allied." - Zuleika Dobson, by Max Beerbohm.
(The only citation in the OED is from this book; it is listed in the OED as a "nonce-word".)
Example: "Zuleika's pincushion, a-bristle with new pins, lay on the dimity-flounced toilet-table, and round it stood a multitude of multiform glass vessels, domed, all of them, with dull gold, on which Z. D., in zianites and diamonds, was encrusted." - Zuleika Dobson, by Max Beerbohm.
As far as I know, Beerbohm made up this word. It appears to mean some sort of precious stone.
Example: "She was tremulous with a joy that was new to her, greater than any joy she had known. Her soul was as a flower in its opetide. She was in love." - Zuleika Dobson, by Max Beerbohm.
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jonesey95 commented on the word virguncule
Definition: noun, a young virgin. (from the OED)
Example: "Mainly architectural, the beauties of Oxford. True, the place is no longer one-sexed. There are the virguncules of Somerville and Lady Margaret's Hall; but beauty and the lust for learning have yet to be allied." - Zuleika Dobson, by Max Beerbohm.
(The only citation in the OED is from this book; it is listed in the OED as a "nonce-word".)
June 6, 2012
jonesey95 commented on the word zianite
Example: "Zuleika's pincushion, a-bristle with new pins, lay on the dimity-flounced toilet-table, and round it stood a multitude of multiform glass vessels, domed, all of them, with dull gold, on which Z. D., in zianites and diamonds, was encrusted." - Zuleika Dobson, by Max Beerbohm.
As far as I know, Beerbohm made up this word. It appears to mean some sort of precious stone.
June 6, 2012
jonesey95 commented on the word opetide
Example: "She was tremulous with a joy that was new to her, greater than any joy she had known. Her soul was as a flower in its opetide. She was in love." - Zuleika Dobson, by Max Beerbohm.
June 6, 2012