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52james commented on the word guislas
Marion Mainwaring sticks some italicized "guislas" in her first full chapter 30 of her completion to Edith Wharton's unfinished The Buccaneers. They're next to "witch-masks, scrimshaw-work," and an "enormous and handsome globe of the world which" may mean they're so exotic that nobody will ever know what a "guisla" is. Maybe a disguise of sort, like a mask? The room with the "guislas" belongs to a world-traveller, in strong opposition to the stay-at-home traditional English aristocrat.
March 10, 2021