Storefront of Parisian gourmet tea company Mariage Frères, experts in the art of tea-making

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Word of the Week

arcana (noun)
singular ar·​ca·​num är-ˈkā-nəm 

plural arcana är-ˈkā-nə 

a: mysterious or specialized knowledge, language, or information accessible or possessed only by the initiate—usually used in plural
b: elixir

Little by little, the arcana of this art, the most neglected of all, had been revealed to Des Esseintes, who could now decipher its languag...