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mollusque commented on the word avournine
He could not say afterwards, when discussing with her that rather pathetic nastiness, whether he really feared that his avournine (as Blanche was to refer later, in her bastard French, to Ada) might react with an outburst of real or well-feigned resentment to stark display of desire. . .
--Vladimir Nabokov, 1969, Ada, or Ardor
November 5, 2009
mollusque commented on the word avournine
Variant of avourneen.
August 20, 2010