periapt

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Elsewhere, fantasy game devotees have rushed to the defense of periapt (a charm or amulet), which they know from the popular Dungeons & Dragons game, and geologists have pointed out the utility of griseous

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  1. noun A charm worn as protection against mischief and disease; an amulet.

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  • Elsewhere, fantasy game devotees have rushed to the defense of periapt (a charm or amulet), which they know from the popular Dungeons & Dragons game, and geologists have pointed out the utility of griseous —  TIME.com: Top Stories
  • It is apodeictic that, while perhaps obscure, words like "skirr" and "periapt" serve uniquely expressive purposes and cannot be subrogated by other, more commonplace words. —  A Gentleman's C
 

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  1. French périapte, from Greek periapton, from periaptos, hung around : peri-, peri- + haptos, fastened (from haptein, to fasten).

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  1. = French périapte = Italian periapto, periatto, from Greek -περίαπτον, an amulet; properly neuter of περίαπτος, hung round, from περί, around, + ἁπτός, verbal adjective of ἁπτειν, fasten.
 

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