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royalaxation commented on the word allilaminate
Allilaminate means layered like an onion.
"Anatol Lunacharsky proposes that Ibsen's Peer Gynt is an allilaminate character: "He can be peeled layer by layer and thus destroyed except for the removed layers."
As far as I'm aware, I coined this neologism tonight!
September 21, 2009
royalaxation commented on the word imbricate
INTERESTING CITATION/USAGE: From "La Place de la Concode Suisse" by John McPhee: "They are descending into Brig--Roman Brig, staging point for travelers preparing to cross the Simplon, a historically imbricate town. To walk to its center from the outside is to go from basketball courts to light industry into neighborhoods of the nineteenth and eighteenth centuries and on into Renaissance vestiges and cobblestoned medieval streets."
September 21, 2009