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latin word of the day: flosculus, a little flower, floweret; a flower of rhetoric, ornament

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Arm of a Man - Original Etching by Thomas Holloway - 1810

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Selling, Dagmar. Tile oven door made of brass. Adapted to an 18th century stove, 1929.

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'The Hammock'. Gustave Courbet. 1844.

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The night was all frost and a fairy tale.

Boris Pasternak,  20th Century Russian Poetry: Silver and Steel, from ‘The Christmas Star’, tr. Yakov Hornstein

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“Aphrodite, the goddess of breathless romances, of honeyed breaths, of feverishly promised forevers.”

— Nikita Gill, from “Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths & Monsters,”

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Hair at Valentino Spring 2015.

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Panel

c. 1675-1700

"Linen and cotton, weft-float faced twill weave; embroidered with wool yarns in chain, detached chain, satin, single back, and stem stitches; French knots; edged with wool, twill woven tape"

England

Art Institute of Chicago

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Frank Cheyne Papé (1878-1972), 'The Unicorn', ''Mother of Pearl'' by Anatole France, 1929

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Clarice Lispector, from a letter in translation to Lúcio Cardoso, featured in All Letters of Clarice Lispector

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Viktor Karlovich Chtemberg (detail)

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af·ter·glow

/ˈaftərˌɡlō/

noun the color left in the sky after the sun has set or good feelings that remain after a successful or pleasurable experience.

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Little Women (1994)

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Trerice Manor, Newquay, Cornwall