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The twilight hours advance from long landshadows, dispersed, lagging, languideyed, their cheeks delicate with cipria and false faint bloom.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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Pagina 16 Pagina 17 16 / 17 Basta un dettaglio per cambiare carattere: deciso, il letto PARSIFAL con la testata in massello di pino spazzolato marrone o delicato, il letto LANCILLOTTO con la testata color cipria a contrasto.
brtom commented on the word cipria
"The twilight hours advance, from long landshadows, dispersed, lagging, languideyed, their cheeks delicate with cipria and false faint bloom." Joyce, Ulysses, 15
January 1, 2008