ephemera

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David was of the ephemera, the pleasure-loving insects.

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  1. noun A plural of ephemeron.

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  • Antique books, magazines and other ephemera are painstakingly sorted and filed according to genre.
  • I couldn't pass up the opportunity to talk to Michael about his wonderful collection. ephemera: Tell me how this all began. —  ArchivesBlogs
  • I also began to research the social and economic impacts of transistor radios … youth culture, rock n roll and the rise of the Japanese electronics industry. ephemera: My first radio was a transistor. —  ArchivesBlogs
  • I always say, "One radio is an accident, two radios is a coincidence and three radios is a collection". ephemera: That's the definition of a collector we use around here, too. —  ArchivesBlogs
  • A wonderful piece of ephemera was a beauty services listing from a beauty school in 1938, which was advertising perms for $1.35 and up, a facial for either 25 or 40 cents and a hair cut for a quarter.
 

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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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