incunabulum

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Which one should I actually go to? "incunabulum, I'm eaten with people who did number 5.

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  1. noun A book printed before 1501; an incunable.
  2. noun An artifact of an early period.

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  • Some good club news (2) incunabulum wrote: I haven't been yet, but I have hear ... —  Blog updates
  • Which one should I actually go to? "incunabulum, I'm eaten with people who did number 5. —  Blog updates
  • The show will revolve around Caravaggio's famous Lute Player, an incunabulum of Baroque portraiture of musicians. —  Art Knowledge News
  • Although, as some may remember, my partner's late mother used to walk off with everything including the cream pitcher and the butter dish, insisting "they want you to - they charge for it!" incunabulum (love the name, btw!) -- I'm guessing you have never waited tables. —  Blog updates
  • With his famous Lute Player, one of the highlights of the Städel's exhibition, Caravaggio had created the incunabulum of Baroque portraiture of musicians, a work enthusiastically received by his successors. —  Art Knowledge News
 

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  1. New Latin incūnābulum, from sing. of Latin incūnābula, swaddling clothes, cradle : in-, in; see in-2 + cūnābula, cradle, infancy (from cūnae, cradle; see kei-1 in Indo-European roots).

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  1. New Latin, a back-formation (as singular) from incunabula: see incunabula.
 

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/ɪnkjuˈnæbjuləm/
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