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  • ` bell-ringer's knell, 'galliaceous halitosis ` garlic breath,' pernoctative nepotation ` riotous carousing through the night, 'bromidrotic fug ` sweaty stench,' and dasypygal demimondaine

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 3 1984

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  • Of or involving pernoctation; taking place throughout the span of a night.

    December 19, 2019