Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Residual deposits of soil, dust, and rock particles produced by the action of the wind.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In geology, an accumulation of dust and soil produced by decomposition of rocks in situ, or drifted by winds.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Residual deposits of soil, dust, and rock particles produced by the action of the wind.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[New Latin ēluvium, from Latin ēluere, to wash out; see elute.]
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More info at website of the Brooklyn-based label that released the full-length version, temporaryresidence.com, and at Eluvium/Cooper’s site, eluvium.net, which houses two additional MP3s: the lush, if peculiarly detuned, “Under the Water It Glowed” and the deceptively rudimentary piano piece “Genius and the Thieves,” which sounds like Rufus Wainwright playing a Harold Budd cover.
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