a list of "beautiful" words for december
to try to include in your next poem/story
Arbustum - a plantation of shrubs or small trees; copse, orchard
Bummel - to go or wander around at a leisurely pace
Canephore - a maiden bearing a basket on her head in an early Greek religious festival
Damascene - to ornament (something, such as iron or steel) with wavy patterns like those of watered silk or with inlaid work of precious metals
Galanty - an entertainment consisting of the telling of a story by means of the shadows of miniature figures thrown on a wall or screen
Instauration - restoration after decay, lapse, or dilapidation
Mithridate - a confection held to be effective against poison
Morbidezza - an extreme delicacy and softness; a sensual delicacy of flesh-coloring in painting
Navette – marquise (i.e., a gem or a ring setting or bezel usually elliptical in shape but with pointed ends)
Orchesis - the art of dancing in the Greek chorus
Panomphean - giving forth all divination; universal
Plenilune - the time of full moon, also: a full moon
Recrudescence - a new outbreak after a period of abatement or inactivity; renewal
Subrident - wearing or offered with a smile
Systaltic - marked by regular contraction and dilatation; pulsing
Trumeau - a central pillar supporting the tympanum of a large doorway especially in a medieval building
Velation - the state of being veiled
Virtu - productions of art especially of a curious or antique nature
Voussoir - one of the wedge-shaped pieces forming an arch or vault
Xoanon - a primitive image of wood sometimes recalling in shape the block or tree-trunk from which it was cut
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