Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
pinacotheca .
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- noun rare
pinacotheca
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Examples
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Impossible even to open the pages without a vision starting into view; with out drawing a picture from the pinacothek of the brain; without reviving a host of memories and reminiscences which are not the common property of travellers, however widely they may have travelled.
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He held an informal review of certain Bavarian troops not out for manoeuvres in the morning, visited the sculpture gallery and pinacothek in the afternoon, and when Hermann and Michael went up to the theatre they found rows of soldiers drawn up, and inside unusual decorations over a section of stalls which had been removed and was converted into an enormous box.
Michael 1903
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Impossible even to open the pages without a vision starting into view; with out drawing a picture from the pinacothek of the brain; without reviving a host of memories and reminiscences which are not the common property of travellers, however widely they may have travelled.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
katemarie54 commented on the word pinacothek
pinacothek pinacotheca the panoramic zoescope if i stop spinning on a harsh memory..a whirling-dervishness besets me. and if when i am standing still and considering grace, the praxinoscope now revealing all that i had not noticed the first or tenth or hundredth cycle around...the added reflections adding perspective and awareness.
August 23, 2014