ephemera

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  1. noun A plural of ephemeron.

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  • A complete list of all these ephemera will be found in the bibliography at the end of this volume; here we need but notice those to which a special interest attaches. —  Henry Fielding A Memoir
  • One thing you may have already noticed is that we are a little more "wired" than before, and it's not just due to Coca-Cola and coffee. —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XXIII No 4
  • His sandaled feet made no sound as they sank slightly into the floor that, instead of tile or marble, was paved with mosaic ephemera. —  Carnivores of Light and Darkness
  • He supposed it wouldn't make all that much of a difference if he performed his own role an hour or so after the Sinister Six performed theirs, but he was used to having his wants and needs fulfilled on demand, and having to crawl behind these half-human pigs flying off to theme parks and other ephemera was more of a personal insult than he was willing to take. —  The Sinister Six Combo
  • I gather that those of Amber's Pattern and those of the Logrus are more in the nature of ephemera. " —  Prince of Chaos
 

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  1. from New Latin ephemera (in def. 1, sc. febris, fever; in def. 3, sc. musca, fly), feminine of ephemerus, from Greek ἐφήμερος, for the day, daily, living but a day, short-lived (το\ ἐφήμερον, an insect, perhaps Ephemera longicauda; πυρετός ἐφήμερος, a fever lasting for a day): see ephemerous.
 

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