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Dictionary of the Rare, Creative, and Beautiful: Words for Writers, Poets & Dreamers
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 – or simply fascinatingly strange.
Within are words and beautiful names such
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
Placenames (Pillars of Hercules, Arabia Felix, Doon Edin, Mare Tenebrosum & Riphean Mountains);
Zoology (quill pig, pink fairy armadillo & frantling);
Astronomy (Eddington luminosity, Venusian, Silurian hypothesis, Jovian trojans & Kreutz sungrazers);
Geopolitics (Perfidious Albion & Baltoscandia);
History (Sahelian kingdoms, sunlit uplands & Groom of the Stool);
Geometry (Penrose stairs & Villarceau circles);
Anatomy (brain sand & frantling);
Archeology (Oldenburg Horn & Nebra sky disc);Plus nautical, poetic, and literary terms
brave west winds & naufragous; person from Porlock & the cavalier poets; the Lost Generation & Erewhonian.Also select slang words, such tactical chunder, snoutfair, molly wop, ghostshipping & grundle.And interesting phrases owls to Athens; Et in Arcadia ego; dolce far niente; andup the wooden hills to bedfordshire.This is the third dictionary from Robin Devoe. The first – Dictionary of the Strange, Curious and Lovely – is a collection of the 3500 “coolest” words in the English language.
Within are words and beautiful names such
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
Placenames (Pillars of Hercules, Arabia Felix, Doon Edin, Mare Tenebrosum & Riphean Mountains);
Zoology (quill pig, pink fairy armadillo & frantling);
Astronomy (Eddington luminosity, Venusian, Silurian hypothesis, Jovian trojans & Kreutz sungrazers);
Geopolitics (Perfidious Albion & Baltoscandia);
History (Sahelian kingdoms, sunlit uplands & Groom of the Stool);
Geometry (Penrose stairs & Villarceau circles);
Anatomy (brain sand & frantling);
Archeology (Oldenburg Horn & Nebra sky disc);Plus nautical, poetic, and literary terms
brave west winds & naufragous; person from Porlock & the cavalier poets; the Lost Generation & Erewhonian.Also select slang words, such tactical chunder, snoutfair, molly wop, ghostshipping & grundle.And interesting phrases owls to Athens; Et in Arcadia ego; dolce far niente; andup the wooden hills to bedfordshire.This is the third dictionary from Robin Devoe. The first – Dictionary of the Strange, Curious and Lovely – is a collection of the 3500 “coolest” words in the English language.
190 pages, Paperback
Published October 23, 2023
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January 11, 2025
Wow, first review, don't mess this up.
I love lists of things so in my opinion this was incredibly well done. Of course beauty is a matter of taste so there were quite a few words I thought were disagreeable rather than lovely or that I didn't believe were rare or creative enough according to some arbitrary yardstick in my mind. But all-in-all I had fun reading this and learned quite a bit & some of the words have already made their way into my every day language, much to the chagrin of my friends.
I love lists of things so in my opinion this was incredibly well done. Of course beauty is a matter of taste so there were quite a few words I thought were disagreeable rather than lovely or that I didn't believe were rare or creative enough according to some arbitrary yardstick in my mind. But all-in-all I had fun reading this and learned quite a bit & some of the words have already made their way into my every day language, much to the chagrin of my friends.
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