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Dictionary of the Rare, Creative, and Beautiful is part dictionary, part portable, selective, and curated encyclopedia. This book offers a window into the breadth and depth of human experience and imagination, showcasing words with unique histories and meaning, or beauty of sound or appearance others are esoteric and deep 8211 or simply fascinatingly strange.Within are words and beautiful names such as:brontomantic, Denisovian, anacampserote, wildering, aprique, oneirogenic, circumundulate, chiromantic, tristisonous, umbratilous, obvolvent, Thulian pink, Thistlegorm, therocephalians, Fata Morgana Land, spumiferous, Panslavonian, and Muromian.Other categories of words, names, and terms are:Placenames (Pillars of Hercules, Arabia Felix, Doon Edin, Mare Tenebrosum &ampRiphean Mountains)Zoology (quill pig, pink fairy armadillo &ampfrantling)Astronomy (Eddington luminosity, Venusian, Silurian hypothesis, Jovian trojans &ampKreutz sungrazers)Geopolitics (Perfidious Albion &ampBaltoscandia)History (Sahelian kingdoms, sunlit uplands &ampGroom of the Stool)Geometry (Penrose stairs &ampVillarceau circles)Anatomy (brain sand &ampfrantling)Archeology (Oldenburg Horn&ampNebra sky disc)Plus nautical, poetic, and literary terms like:brave west winds &ampnaufragousperson from Porlock &ampthe cavalier poetsthe Lost Generation &ampErewonian.Also select slang words, such as: tactical chunder, snoutfair, molly wop, ghostshipping &ampgrundle.And interesting phrases like:bring owls to AthensEt in Arcadia ego dolce far nienteandup the wooden hills to bedfordshire.This is the third dictionary from Robin Devoe. The first 8211 Dictionary of the Strange, Curious and Lovely 8211 is a collection of the 3500 8220coolest8221 words in the English language. The second 8211 Epic English Words 8211 includes the best 10% or so of that 3500, and also interesting names and terms from diverse scientific, artistic, and literary fields. So moonglade, nemorous &ampbrontide and so too Devonian, Muspelheim, Shambhala &ampAvalon are included in Epic English Words. This book 8211 Dictionary of the Rare, Creative, and Beautiful 8211 is similar to Epic English Words except it includes almost all new entries. Each volume stands alone and if you like one, you will probably like all three. (Subsequent to this book, Robin Devoe published two more volumes: Words of Wonder (a collection of only the best selections from all Robin Devoe dictionaries) and Dictionary of the Strange, Epic, and Beautiful (almost the entirety of all the dictionaries combined in one 511-page volume).

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